If this holy man, would still be alive, what would change? Unlimited energy? Flying cars? He would've changed the goddamn world, he is the Jesus of science/technology.
All exsists already
Nothing.
The people smart enough to do what he did are inside their houses right now, doing it.
>>52699588
I would think his ideas would be more worth than what he could actually achieve with only his own two hands if he lived now.
>>52699588
If he wasn't bullshitting with the free energy thing, the world would already be post-scarcity.
>>52699588
Tesla wasn't really all that great. Turing was a far greater loss to human progression.
>>52700578
lol no
>>52700578
A stumbling british crypto faggot, don't think so
>>52700578
This. Tesla claimed a lot of bullshit. The only reason he died poor is because of poor money managing and failure to deliver his magic devices.
>>52700606
Tesla made some really interesting developments in terms of studying general energy transmission, but a lot of his ideas were borderline quackery.
Turing did revolutionary work on biology, mathematics, computing, artificial intelligence, and cryptography.
>>52700568
Tesla never claimed to create "free energy"; people just misunderstood his patent.
>>52700706
What did he claim
>>52701140
He basically made a method of wireless energy transmission with a theoretical "energy gatherer" that was more like a solar panel than anything else, and would likely have had that much efficiency.
The funny thing is, it even needed its own classical generator to work.
Was Tesla the Steve Jobs of his time?
He was obsessed with developing magical technological devices just like Jobs.
>>52701172
Jobs wasn't obsessed with developing magical technology. Jobs' spiel was basically to take pre-existing ideas, package them with a user-friendly UI, and sell them at an extortionate markup.
>they don't know the DOD took all his death ray shit when he died
>they don't know how wardenclyfe actually works
>they use tesla coil backwards for 100 years
its only magic if you don't understand it.
I don't expect anyone here to get it though, that there could be something else than ac and dc is a meme to you before I explain shit so I won't bother.
I mean for fuck sake there are multiple videos now of people doing above to prove it happens and 'science' is like "nope."
>>52699588
He's a hack that stole other people's ideas, especially Thomas Edison's.
>>52701171
Oh ok thx anon,
I think I will look up more into it.
>>52701200
Tesla made a better version of Edison's shit invention. After Tesla did that, everyone on the world used his invention. No-one was interested in Edison's shit motor, after Edison scammed the shit out of Tesla.
>>52699588
he would be missundertood and hangout once in a while with RMS
>>52699588
>he is the Jesus of science/technology.
But Tesla actually existed.
he's overrated into pseudoscience.
he was gonna create a wireless electricity source for huge areas? a century ago? how? that sounds plausible?
he spent the last decades of his life feeding pidgeons
>>52699588
we would have pidgen fucking laws
>>52701379
Jesus did exist though. Whether or not he is God is the questionable part.
Probably a bunch of things re our understanding of biology given he'd be 159 years old.
>>52701386
>how?
high frequency tesla coils
I can tell you haven't even watched the standard documentary covering colorado springs and stuff, let alone actually given a fuck to research this.
i don't want to debate science on this planet anymore .farnsworth
>>52701172
Jobs was a brilliant marketer who basically paved the way for Apple to become what it is today, which is the most valuable publicly traded company on the planet. He wasn't really a visionary or pioneer in the scientific/technological aspect but he's without a doubt one of the greatest salesmen of all time.
Tesla was more of an eccentric mad scientist than a salesman, as evinced by the fact that he was basically penniless with no real business prospects when he died.
>>52700642
If I remember well enough he sold his patents to help a friend, at the end of the day he got sad because his pidgeon friend died, and then he died alone in this apartiment room.
About the claims, I think he just said that to tease Edson or just to get attention of the media.
>>52701172
Jobs was obsessed in manipulate dumb people and take their money, how many iphones are used just to to send text and facebook? why the extra $$ for a brand? you can buy 50 chink phones with the same built quality.
But he is alive. In another body though.
>>52699588
>unlimited energy
Not possible m8
Or the conservation of mass/energy is wrong, which I doubt.
>>52703293
>what is zero-point energy
>>52703311
>The X files
You now live in a world where Edison and Tesla were BFF.
How does the world change?
>inb4 nazi h bomb
>>52701194
Physics major here
Show me how the theory works and I'll believe your bullshit
>>52703311
>buzzwords
>>52699588
I like this guy, but he is a meme.
>>52701182
>>52701598
This.
>>52703311
K didn't know about that one. Ty for sharing.
I wonder how ZPE will work with thermodynamics. I hope I'll learn about it next year.
>>52702390
>>52702758
You're moving to fast for em Anon, spoon feed em.
>>52699588
go back to 9gag/reddit/facebook you ignorant pseudo intellectual cretin fucktard
>Tesla is a meme
>Basically the Chuck Norris joke of science at this point
>>52704240
If you're too retarded to have a nice discussion, you should fuck off.
>>52703854
>>>/sjw/I-love-Steve-Jobs-to-look-hip-General-no-actual-facts-edition
>>52699588
The whole free energy thing would only work with relatively low power devices, You couldn't run something like power tools or electric heaters from a tower. Also there's a ton more people now then when he was around.
Nice to see that you folks can reserve some respect for long-now diseased scientists...
Truly internet is a great invention. Unfortunately, people of little or no sense were allowed to become used to it. I'm sure many in the past thought instant communication and messages would improve everything. It goes to show, people ought not to write before they've had time to process and gather their thoughts properly.
>>52704838
>>>/reddit/
>>52704651
You can absolutely power an inductive load with a Tesla coil.
Simon Gotch?
>>52705124
I've only ever seen it tested with like a lightbulb, and even then you have ya know the giant stream of electricity going to it.
>>52705151
A lightbulb is an inductive load. You don't need an arc actually flowing to it, it just has to be within the sphere of influence of the coil.
>>52699588
Reminder that Tesla as an SJW Cuck
>In 1926, Tesla commented on the ills of the social subservience of women and the struggle of women toward gender equality, and indicated that humanity's future would be run by "Queen Bees." He believed that women would become the dominant sex in the future.
>>52699588
Filthy Serb is filthy.
>>52705471
Not defending him, but you could also say this is a future prediction. He was trying to warn us that we would be ruled by women.
He was a liberal and a feminist, he deserved to be hanged
>>52700642
>The only reason he died poor is because of poor money managing and failure to deliver his magic devices.
Sure thing retard. It totally had nothing to do with his adversaries that owned a powerful established monopoly on energy.
>>52701172
>comparing a scientist to a marketer
This is the level of retardation present in modern America
>>52701200
>actually believing Edison had a single idea of his own
Please stop with the memes
>>52705928
no he was indicating that women are superior
http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/1926-01-30.htm
>>52703854
go back to wherever that picture came from
>>52701598
What if jobs and tesla existed in the same time period? AND worked together?
>>52703311
Uhh...the incredibles?
>>52706341
Superior to you? .... possible.
We would have had free wireless power and internet.
From reading what tesla wrote, I get the impression that he thought he could electromagnetically couple circuits to upper atmosphere wind currents.
I'm on the fence about how much of his shit I believe. He did invent some useful shit, but also made a lot of wild claims.
http://energy.gov/articles/top-11-things-you-didnt-know-about-nikola-tesla
6. During the war of the currents, alternating current (AC) -- favored by Tesla -- battled for wide acceptance with direct current (DC), favored by Edison. At stake was the basis for the entire nation’s electrical system. Edison launched a campaign against AC, claiming it was dangerous and could kill people; Tesla countered by publicly subjecting himself to 250,000-volt shocks to demonstrate AC’s safety. Ultimately, alternating current won the fight.
Why are people so dubm?
>>52706605
How about reading the article and stop projecting?
>>52707149
I'm too lazy and much more enjoy ticking sorts like you off.
>>52706536
Its called Thomas Edison
>>52699588
He's still alive,but he's a vampire.
>>52700568
You delusional commie pinko shit.
Humans will never reach post scarcity.
It's impossible.
>>52703635
No, You'r a meme
>>52699588
He would create wireless video transmission for VR
>>52709670
I think it's possible, but it'll only happen if a relatively small group of first-world, intellectual, open-minded individuals can break off from the rest of humanity and start over, likely as a space colony of some kind.
Anything of the vein attempted as part of earth's society within the next 50-100 years will fall flat on its face because we have too many people who'd be unable to cope with a system in which scarcity plays no part. Even if a handful of people achieved it, outsiders would ruin it through mob-minded paranoia.
>>52707445
Thomas Edison is not an "it"
>>52699588
Nothing. Let's be honest, many - by far not all - but many earlier scientists cherrypicked trivial stuff and wouldn't stand a chance in these days science process.
didnt Tesla die a virgin? while edison fucked a mobsters wife in a swanky club back room.
>>52700648
Please, just stop with autism. PLEEEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>52700648
>700 patents
>quackery
>>52699588
He was a one hit wonder. Died poor and a failure only getting lucky once while having multiple failures. There is a reason Edison is taught in the history books, not this fraud
>>52712150
he was a cuck after all
>Tesla was the greatest scientist ever
>fuck Edison
I want counter culture 14 year old redditors to leave
>>52712290
bait
>>52714477
Even if you don't like Tesla you have to admit that Edison wasn't a particularly savory character, not to mention a bit stupid (idiot nearly blinded himself with xrays).
>>52699925
Not smart enough to figure it out though. It's easy to read a book.
>>52714511
>1800s
>idiot
Nice judging the past by the knowledge of the present there friend.
>>52714697
It doesn't even take 1600s era knowledge to know not to fuck around with your eyes. Humans have known how fragile their optical organs are likely since they started communicating. It's not rocket surgery.
>>52714752
But it does take modern day knowledge to know about x-rays you fucking idiot.
>>52709802
fuckin kekked and im a faggot
>>52699588
Loved this guy in The Prestige. Didn't knew he was like real n stuff.
>>52701194
>they use tesla coil backwards for 100 years
Explain.
