Re: Nikola Tesla on Relativity

From: Bill Hobba (bhobba_at_rubbish.net.au)
Date: 01/31/05 

Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 02:04:20 GMT

"robert j. kolker" <nowhere@nowhere.net> wrote in message
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> Boris Mohar wrote:
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> > Tesla was insane
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> Highly eccentric. He invented multiphase alternating current generators
> and motors. Not bad for a nut case.

Rated by Edison as probably the best electrical engineer he ever met. He
did some work for Edison that impressed him greatly (and tried to rip him
off at the same time). Westinghouse worshiped the ground he walked on when
he basically gave him the rights to alternating current to save his company.
In return Westinghouse ensured he got whatever he wanted for his
inventions/experiments. By all accounts a very gifted mathematician. But
he could never grasp relativity and rebelled against it to his dying day.
That is probably because he has a very highly developed visual intuition and
actually saw in his mind the interaction between fields and mechanisms that
escapes others. Problem is of course not everything is amenable to such
imagery.

Thanks
Bill

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