The Legend of Nikola Tesla: Is It God or Man?
There is such a scientist. In recent years, more and more people have paid attention to him.
He was the founder of the modern alternating current system, but many say his achievements are much more than that. For example, to say that he has an IQ of more than 700, or even 1000: to say that he has actually realized wireless transmission technology: to say that he created the "Tunguska explosion"; It is said that he developed a "dead light weapon ~: say that he actually invented radar a long time ago: say that he actually discovered X-rays long ago: say that his research contributed to the American Apollo moon landing; He said he pointed out that the moon was man-made. I was led to cook in the sun, saying that he had won the Nobel Prize 11 times, but he refused, and single-handedly created the 20th century, and even the 21st century of mankind...
There is no doubt that in some descriptions He is a god entirely.
So, isn't that the case?
July 10, 1856. In the village of Smiwan in What was then Croatia, a couple's fourth child was born.
The child was named Nikola Tesla.
Tesla's parents, both Of whom are Ethnic Seyhuas, may not have anticipated that "Seyhua" would later become a nation, much less that the portrait of their child, Nikola Tesla, would later be printed on the national currency.
Tesla's father was a Nikola Tesla priest and his mother was the daughter of another priest, so the family's expectation of him was to continue on the path of theology. However, Tesla had an almost crazy obsession with mechanical physics, and for this reason, his father and he quarreled.
In 1873, at the age of 17, Tesla was infected by a cholera contagion. In that era of backward medical technology, the family thought he was going to see God. When he became seriously ill, he made a "bet" with his tearful father: if he could survive, the family would allow him to study mechanical physics, not theology.
Of course, Tesla survived. In 1875, at the age of 19, Tess entered the University of Technology in Graz, Austria, to study mathematics, physics and mechanics. Although he dropped out of school for a while due to financial constraints, he eventually completed his studies in Prague.
In 1882, at the age of 26, Tesla finally got a good job as an engineer at a telephone company in Paris.
Since then, Tesla has begun the cause he has struggled for all his life, and he has met a "wrongdoer" who has been entangled in his life.
This telephone company is a branch office of an American company based in Europe. The founder and CEO of the American head office, named Thomas Edison.
With Tesla's talent and ability, he quickly rose to prominence at Edison's European offices.
One of the strongest pieces of evidence is that he was referred to the U.S. headquarters by Charles Barcello, the general manager of the branch, with his employer's letter of recommendation to Edison— "I know two great men, one is you and the other is this young man."
There is no suspense, Tesla in the United States headquarters also quickly became an assistant engineer, those problems that make others helpless, put in front of Tesla is a piece of cake. Until one time, Edison asked him to improve and design the company's DC generators, and because the task was so arduous, Edison promised him: If the task is completed, you will be rewarded with $50,000.
What is the concept of $50,000? Now, it's worth about $1 million. Then Tesla had to complete the task.
Then he went to Edison to ask for a reward, and Edison thought for a moment and replied, "Oh... I think you probably don't understand American humor..."
Well, $50,000 is lost, so Tesla wants to adjust its weekly salary from $18 to $25, but Edison still refuses (there are also claims that Edison agreed).
Of course, the contradiction between Tesla and Edison is not only because of money.
Although Edison holds the title of "inventor", in fact, he is more like an entrepreneur who can directly commercialize inventions (this kind of talent is actually very precious). Tesla, on the other hand, was a scholar with a serious background, so he looked down on Edison, such as the latter who couldn't even do calculus!
The deeds of Edison, who have been repeatedly praised by people--for example, after thousands of tireless experiments," seem to Tesla to be just stupid proofs:
The methods he used were very inefficient, he often did things that were half the work, and overall, I was an unfortunate witness. If he knew some of the minimum theories and calculation methods, he would save 90% of his effort. He ignored elementary education and mathematical knowledge, and completely trusted the intuition of the inventor and the American sense built on experience.
Of course, what eventually prompted Tesla and Edison to break up was the well-known alternating current and direct current dispute.
Simply put, Tesla firmly believes that only alternating current is the future trend, while Edison insists on the fortress of direct current (because all his belongings are invested in direct current power generation and related industries). In this "battle of the century", Edison used some very disgraceful means to inevitably leave some stains on his legendary life.
All in all, in 1885, Tesla left Edison and later set up its own electrical company.
A generation of geek gods began to run wildly on the road that only they understood.
What exactly has Tesla achieved?
In fact, a casual search on the Internet, you can search too many and too many, including the following areas: alternating current systems, radio systems, wireless power transmission, ball lightning, turbines, amplification transmitters, particle beam weapons, solar engines, X-ray equipment, electric energy instruments, missile science, remote sensing technology, aircraft, cosmic rays, radar systems, robots...
Indeed, if one can make a remarkable contribution in these areas (Tesla is the founder of almost all of these fields, according to the Internet), it is really a person who can be regarded as a "god" or someone who has "crossed" back from the future.
Some of Tesla's achievements in these areas are indeed deserved - such as the genius improvement of alternating current generators, which is a great achievement that has stood the test of the times. And some, in fact, have little to do with Tesla.
Let's try to take a few examples and say something about it.
For example, Tesla actually invented radar a long time ago, but because it was suppressed by Edison, it was not announced
The recognized inventor of radar was the British physicist Watt (not the one who improved the steam engine). He erected his first radar station in 1936. In fact, since 1922, many British and American scientists, including Marconi, have proposed the idea of "radar". Tesla did come up with the idea of radar, but what really worked out was Watt. You can't say who ever thought of it, who invented it, right?
For example - since it comes to Marconi - Tesla invented radio much earlier than Marconi.
But in fact, Marconi and Tesla independently invented radio technology, the United Kingdom recognized the patent of the former, and the United States recognized the patent of the latter. The U.S. later revoked Tesla's patents (one reason is said to be that Marconi had consortium support in the United States, including Edison), but reinstated Tesla's patents in 1943 (probably out of consideration of avoiding paying royalties).
For example, Tesla designed and built the world's first hydroelectric power station. The hydroelectric power station, the famous Niagara Hydroelectric Power Station, was indeed a remarkable project, but it was not designed and built by Tesla, but by a Scottish engineer named George Forbes appointed by the Westinghouse Electric Company that undertook the project at that time.
However, Forbes did use Tesla's alternating current generator and the principle of alternating current transmission. Tesla's "miracle" of using alternating current to generate electricity at the Chicago World's Fair and lighting 90,000 light bulbs at the same time was an important reason why the Westinghouse Electric Company, where he worked, got an order for the Niagara hydropower station.
For example, Tesla actually discovered the rays before Röntgen. Tesla did study X-rays, but much of his research, including X-rays, was destroyed by a fire in his lab in 1895 — a real loss to the scientific community. So as for how far he studied X-rays, it is actually impossible to confirm.
For example, he said that he had already achieved wireless power transmission. Tesla was indeed one of the first to propose wireless power transmission in a system, and also made the famous "Tesla coil" (a transformer that makes high voltage). But there's no evidence that he's done wireless power transfer technology that can be applied to practice — and of course, the ideas he came up with and the attempts and efforts he's made to do so are admirable, which is why Elon Musk now names their company's pure electric car "Tesla."
Incidentally, there is no basis for the fact that "Tesla once made 100 million volts", and there is evidence that Tesla once made a voltage of nearly 20 million volts, but never exceeded this data.
As for the "Tesla that caused the Tunguska explosion", there is no basis for it (see "A mysterious super explosion" in this book).
Legend has it that Tesla used his "Walden Kriv Tower" to create the famous Explosion, and one of the evidences is that the tower is located at the same latitude as the Tunguska region, but it is actually far away. Most critically, the Tunguska explosion occurred in 1908, and by 1906, The staff of Wardn Clifford tower had been basically evacuated, and the tower was in a state of decommissioning.
And the Apollo moon landings, the solar system and the like, needless to say.
In fact, Tesla fell into the study of "cosmic theory" in his later years and could not extricate himself.
In 1936, at the age of 80, Tesla published a paper called "The Dynamic Theory of Gravity", which was later popularized on the Internet. In this article, Tesla attempts to establish his theory of the "grand unified field" based on Newton's "gravitational force", while rejecting Einstein's theory of relativity altogether.
Judging from the course of human scientific history, any theory or doctrine that was considered absurd at the time may not be truly absurd after passing the test of time. We dare not say that Einstein's theory is definitely correct, Tesla's research is certainly absurd, but at least one thing is certain, there is no basis for the so-called Tesla in his theory that "Mars landed", "artificial planet", "space teleportation", "time travel", "gravitational gate system", "gravitational wall", "photon wall" and "particle wall".
In the early morning of January 8, 1943, in Room 3327 of the "New Yorker Hotel" in New York, USA, a maid named Alice found a body lying on the bed, which was the body of Nikola Tesla.
After forensic examination, the exact time of death of the 87-year-old Tesla should be around 10:30 p.m. on the evening of January 7, and the cause of death was heart failure.
For the last 10 years of Tesla's life, he stayed in various hotels and struggled financially. Doesn't he make any money? Not. According to the patent royalty standard at that time, the user had to pay a royalty of $1 to Tesla for every production of -horse AC power.
However, Tesla abandoned the patent and made it free for humans around the world.
After Tesla's death, his brain was not "plucked and studied" as rumored on the Internet, and his body was completely cremated. Nor is there any evidence or information that he has taken mental and IQ tests.
There is also no information or evidence to prove his 11 rejections of the Nobel Prize. However, he was nominated for the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics, which the Nobel Foundation had acknowledged were Tesla and Edison (later awarded to the Prague fathers and sons who contributed to the X-ray research).
"I'm just an ordinary person with no special abilities." This is what Tesla himself said.
Tesla is not a great, all-powerful "god," but he is a great scientist after all—a genius electrical engineer if you go into detail—an objective fact that cannot be refuted.
In 1960, at the International Conference of Metrology in Paris, in order to commemorate his achievements, the unit of "magnetic induction intensity" was named "Tesla" from then on.
This kind of real recognition may be much more reliable than saying that he has various "miracles".
To be honest, in China's "Tesla God-making" movement, CCTV has done a lot of credit. In June 2009, CCTV's 10 science and education channels "People" broadcast two episodes of the documentary "Science Superman Nikola Tesla". The main clue of this documentary comes from the "documentary" made by Russian freelance writer and director Vitaly Pravdivchev , "Tesla: King of the World". The choreographer also filmed the following works: "Tunguska Invasion for a Hundred Years", "Flying Saucer of the Third Reich", "Secret Area of the Moon" and so on.
So, I won't comment on anything more.
Tesla's possession was continuously "deified" by a great scientist (not only in China, but also in the United States) as an "all-powerful being", in addition to the fact that he himself did have a genius brain, but also from our own two kinds of psychology.
One is our sadness. In our impression, scientists seem to be eccentrics, do not eat human fireworks, indifferent to all fame and fortune, and live a lifetime of hardship and poverty. Tesla is indeed very qualified in these three aspects, so it is also in line with people's psychology, and then there will be the impulse to exalt him at all costs.
The other type, the regurgitation of psychology. The more famous you are, the more I want to hear about your flaws; The more nameless you are, the more I want to be the one who discovers your (or knows) sparkle. Tesla was indeed suspected of being buried for quite some time, but over the years, I felt that there was a tendency to be overly deified, so that it became a spiritual totem for some people.
In fact, our attitude towards "scientists" is sometimes quite contradictory.
On the one hand, we express our admiration for the persistence and poverty of some real scientists, and we are angry at the income and popularity of some film and television actors that greatly exceed the scientists' shooting. On the other hand, when some scientists really gain fame and fortune, some people seem to be unhappy again, whether you study physics or grow rice, some people's focus begins to shift to other points.
Most ordinary scientists, especially those who are not as well-known as first-class singers and movie stars, are the same in every country on the planet. From an economic point of view, well-known artists themselves are scarce in the market, and they have indeed made efforts, and then with the help of human nature and mass media, they have obtained rich returns, after all, it is not a heinous "crime".
We all maintain a real respect for real scientists, and I think it is very valuable to remember their contributions. For them, their ideal is to really promote the progress of human technological civilization, without caring how many fans cry and shout: "Do you know how hard he works?"
And are scientists really not rewarded? That may be that we underestimate the power of time.
Tesla was born in 1856, and more than 160 years later, most of us are still chanting his name, and I reckon that in a few more 160 years, humanity will still remember him.
Physical and chemical units, lunar craters, asteroids, rockets, satellites, and even road names and square names around us, how many of them are named after scientists.
People who can truly contribute to the thousands of years of humanity, humanity will remember them for thousands of years.
That in itself is a fair thing.