"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. "
"I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have no properties. It might as well be said that God has properties. He has not, but only attributes and these are of our own making. Of properties we can only speak when dealing with matter filling the space. To say that in the presence of large bodies space becomes curved is equivalent to stating that something can act upon nothing. I, for one, refuse to subscribe to such a view."
This is, of course, Tesla refuting Einstein's theories. He couldn't "get his head around" Einstein's work and made a number of strong statements regarding it. Possible to be very intelligent and very wrong sometimes!
"I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have no properties. It might as well be said that God has properties. He has not, but only attributes and these are of our own making. Of properties we can only speak when dealing with matter filling the space. To say that in the presence of large bodies space becomes curved is equivalent to stating that something can act upon nothing. I, for one, refuse to subscribe to such a view."
This is, of course, Tesla refuting Einstein's theories. He couldn't "get his head around" Einstein's work and made a number of strong statements regarding it. Possible to be very intelligent and very wrong sometimes!