/sci/ - Science & Math

>>10997331
they don't rely on the ether! their main proposal is that electrical phenomena is much more important in the universe than normally thought by scientist and that gravity is an "charged phenomena" but this doesn't mean gravity is electricity as such , according to them gravity is produced by a very small displacement of the atomic nucleus in atoms.

>eric Dillard

Eric dollard can't even read and he clearly has a limited electronics knowledge otherwise he would understand what tesla was saying , he doesn't even undertand the difference between theory VS experiment, Tesla had many practical devices but an erroneous theory, Tesla was death wrong about atomic power (he though it was impossible) and he was wrong about the nature of radioactivity (he though it was cosmic rays interacting with the radioctive material and not a property of the material itself).

and btw even einstein was wrong about atomic power https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD3k1hgbUXQ

tesla and einstein had more in common than people think, both considered that atomic power was a pipedream and both considered the ether theory as plausible.

so at least we know both were wrong about one proven fact that we can agree on (atomic power). people can make mistakes , tesla (and einstein) made mistake about his views on atomic power:


>I have disintegrated atoms in my experiments with a high potential vacuum tube I brought out in 1896 which I consider one of my best inventions. I have operated it with pressures ranging from 4,000,000 to 18,000,000 volts. More recently I have designed an apparatus for 50,000,000 volts which should produce many results of great scientific importance. But as to atomic energy, my experimental observations have shown that the process of disintegration is NOT accompanied by a liberation of such energy as might be expected from the present theories.

obviously he made a mistake here, that range of voltage alone can not produce nuclear reaction.


about cosmic rays:

>This ray, which I call the primary solar ray, gives rise to a secondary radiation by impact against the air and the cosmic dust scattered through space. It is now commonly called the cosmic ray, and comes, of course, equally from all directions in space. If radium could be screened effectively against this ray it would cease to be radioactive.

he made another mistake there, radioactivity is not a by-product of cosmic rays.

and in that same article is where we have this:

>The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

>Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

beautiful phrases but they shouldn't be considered a "proof".