/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11518213
> forbidden bird love waifu

>>11518213
This is not /sci/. Take this to /his/

>>11518253
Well the other day I saw some people on here talking about how people who liked tesla were retarded (it was called Tesla brain or somthing like that). It interested me because everyone else seems to be obsessed with how smart Tesla was, and I wanted to hear an opposing viewpoint.

>>11518266
>Well the other day I saw some people on here talking about how people who liked tesla were retarded
So Tesla himself. Literally /his/ tier

>>11518266
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#Tesla.27s_appeal_to_cranks

>>11518352
>rationalwiki

>>11518213
As far as I can tell, he had overbearing synesthesia that affected multiple senses, which enhanced his memory and allowed him to visualize in great detail, but also seemed to mess with his sanity.

>In his 1921 interview for the *American Magazine*, Tesla explained: “During my boyhood I had suffered from a peculiar affliction due to the appearance of images, which were often accompanied by strong flashes of light. When a word was spoken, the image of the object would present itself so vividly to my vision, that I could not tell whether what I saw was real or not… Even though I reached out and passed my hand through it, the image would remain fixed in space.”

>In his 1921 interview for the *American Magazine*, Tesla explained: “During my boyhood I had suffered from a peculiar affliction due to the appearance of images, which were often accompanied by strong flashes of light. When a word was spoken, the image of the object would present itself so vividly to my vision, that I could not tell whether what I saw was real or not… Even though I reached out and passed my hand through it, the image would remain fixed in space.”

So auditory to visual projector synesthesia.
Possibly visuo-spatial synesthesia and number form synesthesia as well based on his description of visualizing and running machines in his head and performing mental calculations. Synesthesia is also more common in autism, which he displayed symptoms of.

>>11518398
Oops, meant for this to be the second quote, which showed his synesthesia was driving him crazy.

>The same year, Tesla suffered a nervous breakdown. Doctors could not understand all the strange manifestations of his illness. Tesla suffered from acute sensitivity of all of the sense organs. His biographer and friend, John J. O’Neill, writes – “To him, the ticking of a watch three rooms away sounded like the beat of hammers on an anvil. Ordinary speech sounded like thunderous pandemonium. The slightest touch had the mental effect of a tremendous blow. A beam of sunlight shining on him produced the effect of an internal explosion.”

>>11518369
>rationalwiki REEEEEEEE

>>11518406
He once worked for over 70 hours straight without sleep, no coffee or other stimulants. That sort of unbounded brain is a ticking time bomb - take constraints off and it's gonna melt down eventually

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMmBOhM0y2g

>>11518213

He was a good engineer but a terrible physicist.

>>11518423
True although that’s more because he tried to do literally everything in his head

>>11518411
retard if you rely on rationalwiki, you deserve to be memed at. Who's to say rationalwiki isn't biased themselves

>>11518598
Who's to say it is biased? Where did rationalwiki hurt you? Show us your booboos.

>>11518213
TESLA could understand secret of the universe that would melt the brain of normal human being. This is why he was quirky.

>>11518213
He developed a brain tumor in his frontal lobe as a result of years of failed X-ray experimentation, which caused serious decline in his ability as an inventor. It didn't so much impair his intellect per se, but damaged the other unquantified aspects of a human's emotional capacity that made him unreliable in a similar way to Phineas Gage. I have no evidence for this, but certain methods of experimenting with X-ray tubes involved looking directly into the emitter to test for functionality. X-rays also blinded Edison and paralyzed then later killed his assistant Dally.

>>11518978
he outright refused to believe/understand electromagnetism and subscribed to a completely unsupported theory he called "true wireless".

Tesla was a genius, no doubt, but he did not understand or believe in the physics behind telecommunications devices, so he could never have invented radar, "true wireless" power, radio, etc..

https://earlyradiohistory.us/tesla.htm

>>11519038
That's because he was beyond such childish concept. He would have invented radio antigravity, wireless energy using a science WE still cannot foresee.

>>11519097>>11519038
Obviously TESLA do not "believe", believing is for primitive theist. He understood the world.

>>11518352
cringe

>>11519164
>>>/reddit/

>>11519097
Sure he would.

The amount of bullshit around Tesla is staggering desu

>>11518411
>>11518352
>>11518651
>rationalwiki
Tell me if you're serious or not because I don't want to think someone on here is legitimately that retarded.

>>11519274
I am serious, you are that retarded.

>>11519311
Okay you're shitposting that's obvious now.

I love the bit he wrote that basically predicted the internet and smartphones