By Rand Clifford for Veterans Today
When Albert Einstein was asked how it felt to be the “smartest person alive”, Einstein replied: “I don’t know, you’ll have to ask Nikola Tesla.”
Certain scholars question the validity of this exchange, largely because Tesla…well, in 1934, on his 79th birthday, Tesla called Einstein’s Relativity Theory “…a beggar wrapped in purple whom ignorant people take for a king.”
Other Tesla quotes amid his public disagreement with Einstein, regarding Relativity Theory:
— “…a mass of error and deceptive ideas violently opposed to the teachings of great men of science of the past and even to common sense…the theory wraps all these errors and fallacies and clothes them in magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. Its exponents are very brilliant men, but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists.”
— “Not a single one of the relativity propositions has been proved.” (NYT, 7/11/1935, p. 23).
Reverence of Einstein, historically and publicly seems rather full-scope. His eminence has been welded into the public mind by those who control the public mind, the Power Status Quo (PSQ).
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I do fully agree with Tesla about Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Eintein’s approach and the definition of the gravitation directed the whole science into the confusion, we all experience in physics today. Dead end.
I do not think Tesla would considered with his comment the special theory, while Einstein’ left it very much uncompleted.