dale hodgins wrote:
None of Tesla's thousands of devotees have ever been able to produce a working model of his miracle machine. There is a good magazine called the skeptical Inquirer which specializes in debunking scientific malarkey. They use peer-reviewed scientific methods rather than gatherings of geeky hero worshipers.
I bet that if you could have told the scientists of a 100 years ago that you could carry a tiny black box in your pocket and no matter where you were you could talk to anyone else who had a similar tiny box in real time over immense distances with it and even send pictures of events happening, you would have been considered a candidate for a nuthouse and those same scientists could have gently explained how that simply wasn't possible.
Today we have machines that can PRINT OUT Human kidneys
http://www.ted.com/talks/anthony_atala_printing_a_human_kidney.html and other such technological miracles.
It is difficult for anyone else to fully understand the work of creative genius or artists in the first place and when that's combined with a genius for a field which we still don't really fully understand ( I am told we understand all about the HOW of electricity but still not the WHY) it's no surprise that nobody has yet been able to duplicate what Tesla did.
One of the things which has given Tesla a lot of traction was the felt need to confiscate his papers..if they were nonsense then why bother? It would be a simple matter, if a person was to be inclined to conspiracy theories, to wonder if the papers which were returned had been altered or simply be missing a page here and there.. Even without such speculation, the thing seems to be that Tesla was considered to be able to do what he said he could do at the time..and what has been done once..can be done again.
