/sci/ - Science & Math

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Why don't we learn about this guy in school?

are you of the underground?

>>5096775
fuck off you pink-faced queer

>>5096777
because edison is the best of all time XDDDDDDD

>>5096777

because then we might catch onto the fact that technology is being hidden from us and we are getting fucked

>>5096750

>>5096777
They're afraid we'd use the knowledge for evil.

>>5096750
http://chanarchive.org/4chan/pol/58164

>>5096804

Tesla did talk about being able to split the earth in 2

>>5096809
now imagine if he was alive today

>>5096809
There is no doubt Tesla went a bit mad but he was still a thousand times the man edison ever was

As for splitting the earth in two, Tesla probably figured how it was possible and then tried to theorise how to physically do it

>>5096821
He'd probably fist bump with Elon musk and Richard Branson

Then feel pretty good about how much of a impact his work had on the world

Seriously guys, enough with the nerd-boners for Tesla. I get where it comes from, he was a smart guy, socially awkward, up until not that long ago he was the "forgotten genius" that people in the "mainstream" didn't know about. And more than that, much more important to /sci/ types was the things he worked on are were impractical, so we don't have them lying around. The inventions of Edison are humdrum and common place, but nowhere do we find death rays lying around.

But you have to fucking accept that there is just about no evidence for many of Tesla's wild claims. The man was seriously nutcakes. He was a genius with AC and wave properties, resonances and that. He saw a bunch of possibilities but not much by way of practicalities, and was of course crazy.

I know its attractive to think of Tesla as this sole luminary figure shining out of a dark backwards time. But get some perspective. Tesla was not 1000 years beyond the rest of the world. He was not privy to some special science. He was just a genius, a run-of-the mill genius.

>>5096864
>up until not that long ago he was the "forgotten genius" that people in the "mainstream" didn't know about.

I don't think this was ever true.

>>5096864
> a run-of-the mill genius
What the hell kind of term is that?

>>5096869
Yep, Tesla has enjoyed recent popularity in pop-culture with some movie appearances and the internet exposure. Go back to the 1990s he was pretty well forgotten by a great many people.

>>5096871
It means he was just a genius, a genius as the human race has spawned a thousand times before. He was not the science-messiah who came to give us free energy but was struck down and betrayed by Edison and died suffering for our science-sins.

>>5096869
It depends on your threshold of "unknown". He was mentioned in schools, and forgotten after one test, only to be remembered by metalheads. So, it WAS true. Until about the later 90s. Thank the Internet.

"The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concetrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power."
-Nikola Tesla

Suck it, atheistfags.

>>5096903
wow, did he really say that?

>>5096931
Yes.

>Teslafags think it was Tesla vs Edison

>>5096931
Many creative people have said inspiration seems to flow into them from outside their minds in short bursts. I think this is what he's talking about when he refers to coming "in tune" with a "great power"

That or he just means god

>>5096952
I think he just means God.

>>5096949
Well no it was A/C vs. D/C and A/C won by a somewhat significant amount...

It was a good dick waving contest, Edison's campaign was sort of "YEEE HAAA" running around electrocuting stray dogs, cats and a elephant. Tesla then in return, connected himself to a high frequency circuit which caused him no harm

dealwithit

>>5096903
Here's the full quote, too big to copy and paste.
He pedals away from religion pretty damn quick.

>>5096965
>He pedals away from religion pretty damn quick.

There is nothing in that passage to this.

Chillin'

>>5096968
Here's the passage in a nutshell, one word for every sentence.
>RELIGION RELIGION SCIENCE SCIENCE SCIENCE SCIENCE SCIENCE SCIENCE SCIENCE SCIENCE SCIENCE SCIENCE

>>5096962
>Still thinks it has anything to do with Tesla after he developed AC

>>5096978
>implying religion and science are mutually exclusive

The first paragraph outlines his inspiration. The second his scientific curiosities.

>>5096988

If you guys read any history you would know that until the 60's practically everyone professed a belief in God if he or she wanted to be employed just about anywhere.

Hell, look at George Harrison singing about "My Sweet Lord", and having a hit. Imagine any current group producing something like that outside of country or gospel.

>>5096750
0/10

>>5096775
You mad?

>>5097013
He worked for Edison. Edison was not religious.

>>5096809

Allan L. Benson: World Today (Feb. 1912); "Nikola Tesla, Dreamer" ~ An illustration for the article shows an artist's conception of the planet splitting in two. The caption reads: "Tesla claims that in a few weeks he could set the earth's crust into such a state of vibration that it would rise and fall hundreds of feet and practically destroy civilization. A continuation of this process would, he says, eventually split the earth in two."

ITT: Narcissistic Autists who fantasize they might be the new Tesla.

>>5097987

>>5096962

1) Tesla did not invent A/C. It was around since long before he was born. He learned about it in school!

2) Tesla was not the champion of A/C in the war of the currents, Westinghouse was.

3) A/C did not "win." They are both important. A/C is more practical for distribution, D/C is more practical when you actually want to use it.

>>5096750
This is why peer review is so important.

>>5098007

"Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine."

>>5098007
This. Learn2scientificmethod.

>>5098106

hahaha this coming from einstein fags is hillarious. einstein did not even use the scientific method

>>5098134

Tesla wsa genuis, rite?

fuck einstein. Tesla knew the truth

>>5098159
Yes, he invented magnets and electricity.

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Tesla was also an original member of AC/DC

True story.

>>5096750
Is he actually talking about neutrinos or neutrons? Since Pauli proposed the neutron originally as neutrinos.

>>5098742

Tachyons.
But remember, he was Batshit Insane.

I am glad I can contribute to this thread.

>>5098764
I wonder if that has anything to do with the theoretical matrix that SRII believes is involved with remote viewing.

>>5098742
He's just talking bullshit.

Nothing exceeds the speed of light. If it was charged it wouldn't be neutral. Tesla understood neither relativity nor quantum mechanics.

He was an engineer. Not a scientist.

>>5096775
but they are

>>5098764

10/10

>>5098791

he was a physicist you dumb twat

>>5098791
>He was an engineer.
This. How else would it explain him being single throughout his life?

Tesla rejected relativity. Relativity turned out to, you know, be right. That's really all there is to it. Tesla was THE go-to genius on electrical systems, and Edison deserves a kick in the ass for having mostly terrible ideas. But everything else Tesla had to say turned out to be about as crackpot as what everyone else said at the time.

Genius is not universal; it's narrow. We can give credit to Tesla for what he's actually good at without pretending the batshit stupid stuff he said was also right.

>>5096955
Well that's just the term some people use.
Some people call it 'chi', or 'prana', or whatever.
Either way, it's just this overwhelming sense of energy that seems to not only flow in you, but through you and the external.
Obviously there's a scientific explanation for it, but I've felt it and many others have.
Those who are quick to jump to conclusions try to explain it as divine.
I merely think of it as heightened sensing.

>>5099141
But Relativity is self-contradictory. How could it be "right" when Relativity implies the truth to be relative?

>>5096797
>quoting tesla when he was wrong

>>5099156
>it confuses me
>it's self-contradictory
I hate you.