Oil on Belgian linen.
W 70 x H 70 x D 2.2 cm.
10 July 1856 - 7 January 1943
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist who is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system.
“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.” Tesla claimed to have developed his own physical principle regarding matter and energy that he started working on in 1892, and in 1937, at age 81, claimed in a letter to have completed a "dynamic theory of gravity" that "[would] put an end to idle speculations and false conceptions, as that of curved space". He stated that the theory was "worked out in all details" and that he hoped to soon give it to the world. Further elucidation of his theory was never found in his writings.
Tesla specifically calls out Einstein: "Now a long haired crank, Einstein by name, puts on your high teaching all the blame." In 1935 in comments to The New York Times, Tesla was critical of Einstein stating that his theory of relativity was "like a beggar clothed in purple, whom ignorant people take for a king."
“Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment and merging of races, and we are still far from this blissful realisation.”