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Originally Posted by Professor S
After thinking about your posts, Mana, my issues are more with the infinite complexity of science and its movement to areas that are untestable (and therefore unknowable). I long for the days of giant coils and earth battery theories...
Also, I think that much of science has abandoned Tesla and his contributions. he is the single most influential scientist of the modern era (I include Einstein in that statement) and hardly anyone knows much about him.
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Science has to move to untestable areas in order to push the envelope to be able to test them, though. That's what science does. That's one of it's "jobs".
Without trying to test the untestable, we wouldn't be in space, have planes, boats, nuclear energy, fission, fusion, or the like.
I do however agree completely with you on Tesla. I think he is a genius, and he doesn't get recognition because some people view what he was aiming at as unruly.