E=MC2 i believe that! Did Tesla? (i know he did not believe all of what Einstein claimed).?

Question

i don't think even Einstein believed all they claimed he proved

Answer 1

It's pretty easy to verify - just look at the Sun.  No belief required in science; you can alway just go test it for yourself.  Yes, I'm pretty sure Tesla accepted that.  It's a pretty basic equation.

Answer 2

Quote by Tesla:

I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have no properties. It might as well be said that God has properties. He has not, but only attributes and these are of our own making. Of properties we can only speak when dealing with matter filling the space. To say that in the presence of large bodies space becomes curved is equivalent to stating that something can act upon nothing. I, for one, refuse to subscribe to such a view.[75]

He did not believe it, while Einstein sure did. Einstein was not happy with his theory allowing singularities (black holes). The discovery of black holes after his death was one of the major supports for his theory, as these had been the most extreme objects of his theories. Einstein himself looked for a way to find an exclusion criteria making sure in the universe that black holes couldn't develop.

Answer 3

Tesla's work was in low-energy (by physics standards) electromagnetism.  The equation E=mc^2 is irrelevant to this field of endeavor.

Answer 4

Tesla was closer to making real his dreams and wishes - say opposed to Einstein.  Just look at how many patents Tesla had (there would have been more, had Tesla himself applied for them - ie. Tesla did not seek credit for all that he had invented) compared to Einstein?

Note - how the world recognises Einstein but had forgotten how much Tesla gave to our modern world...

One has to merely go through the list of his inventions to see how much he changed the world, and how much we rely upon his inventions in our daily life.  He did invent the alternating current (AC) which we are dependent upon...

He is pictured to us, as going wacko in his later years - but he is such a visionary, I think that cannot be discounted.  It is very possible much of his inventions were correct, and some are developed in secret?  See HAARP...

And some of his inventions are not fully understood - for example he had a black box device which he set up and powered a motor car by....

He had a very unique mind - in that he could mentally picture his invention (that he is working on) and see it working, and if it was not working efficiently, he could change the design a little and picture it working again - such that when it came to building it physically - it would then work flawlessly first time.

Watch all the documentaries you can find - about Tesla - to be completely impressed by him...

You'd probably need to be an electronics engineer to fully understand how impressive he is?  I am not one, or even close....  Or a scientist?

Answer 5

Tesla was kind of brilliant but also a bit nutty.

Tesla proposed a field theory of gravity which would do away with Einstein's curved space.  Tesla also did not like E=MC2 and preferred an environmental energy (or ether) such that matter itself was not equivalent to energy.

But Einstein's theories have been proved many, many times with remarkable precision.  They are not seriously in doubt.

And yes, Einstein had some missteps.  Particularly he introduced a Cosmological Constant to achieve a static (non-expanding/contracting) universe.  Einstein revoked the notion when Edwin Hubble proved conclusively that the universe was expanding.  Einstein called his Cosmological Constant the biggest blunder of his life.

Answer 6

N. Tesla came up with the idea of 3-phase alternating current and was an early worker in wireless telegraphy.  He also seems to have pioneered remote control.  For this he should be remembered.

He had wild ideas about broadcasting electricity around the place, this could not have been paid for and would have made every large metal structure hazardous to touch, if it had worked.  

In his later life he had become a gunner.  "I'm gunner do this and I'm gunner do that."  But he rarely did.  

I'm pretty sure he believed in the ether or aether.  This idea was disposed of by the Michelson-Morley experiment which showed that it did not exist.  

Einstein, who was the son of a manufacturer of dynamos and electric motors knew a fair bit about that sort of thing.  He also invented improvements to refrigerators.  

Some of Einstein's work was an attempt to explain observed facts about electromagnetism in the absence of the ether.  

I have looked a little into some of the material favored by Tesla fans.  A lot of it is just nuts.

Answer 7

Tesla did wonderful work in the field of electrical engineering in his younger years. Unfortunately, as he aged he gradually became a crank, and this period in his life coincided with the introduction and development of general relativity theory, first set forth by Einstein around 1916. [E = mc^2 comes from special relativity (1905) which was not central to Tesla's interests.]

By the time Tesla published his "alternative" to general relativity he was well into his screwball phase, and the scientific world paid little attention to him. But of course there are always people who know very little but think they are revolutionaries, and they became Tesla's fans. Some of them are still around, though Tesla died in 1943.

My father remembers seeing Tesla, impeccably dressed in a pearl gray suit with fedora, sitting in Bryant Park and feeding the pigeons, which is mostly what he did in later life.