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Sometimes Notions Get Reversed

Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments and they wander off through equation after equation and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

Nikola Tesla

The theory of relativity he described as “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.

New York Times article on Nikola Tesla

Ritual ideas relativity
Only buildings no people prophecy
Time slide place to hide nudge reality
Foresight minds wide magic imagery

Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide,
no escape from reality

David Bowie

Space guy fell from the sky
Scratched my head and wondered why
Time slides into time
Across international dateline

Axis spins so round and round we go
Where we’re going no one really knows
Here we, here we, here we, here we go
Feel the fire way down below

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. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king. Its exponents are very brilliant men, but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists. Not a single one of the relativity propositions has been proved.

Nikola Tesla

Sometimes notions get reversed
Center of the universe

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  • A Structure Which Has No Relation to Reality
    Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments and they wander off through equation after equation and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
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    Modern Mechanix and Inventions
    Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World
    Magazine
    Modern Mechanix and Inventions (July 1934)

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  • A Mass of Error and Deceptive Ideas
    The theory of relativity he described as "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.
    Sources
    New York Times
    Tesla, 79, Promises to Transmit Force
    Other
    July 11th 1935 - Assails Theory of Relativity. as Work of Metaphysicians and Not Scientific.
  • They Are Metaphysicists Rather Than Scientists
    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. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for...
    Sources
    New York Times
    Tesla, 79, Promises to Transmit Force
    Other
    July 11th 1935 - Assails Theory of Relativity. as Work of Metaphysicians and Not Scientific.