Nikola Tesla Censored From An Electromagnetic Physics Textbook

Originally posted by madhatr137
What is going on is simple enough...Tesla was a mad scientist who was WAY ahead of his time who envisioned a future of, among other things, Free Energy...and with the development of spingronics and some recent quantum physics breakthroughs and new nanomaterials, it's turning out that a hundred years or so later...he's been pretty spot on...

No he's not.

There's no evidence that anything significant of Tesla's after say 1910 had any substantial influence on modern science, or was fundamentally insightful. There's just a lot of unsubstantiated stories. He didn't understand QM at all, which, starting in the 1920's radically changed all fundamental understanding of physics and technology.

He invented the 3-phase electromagnetic induction motor, which was pretty important in the late 1890's.

He didn't have "Free Energy", he made giant electromagnetic resonators which had to be powered by conventional power plants. They were, and are, impractical for many good reasons.

The men of that time who really mattered were Bohr and Einstein. Understanding relativity and the photon (Einstein), and how quantum mechanics determined chemistry & atomic physics were the consequence of QM (Bohr) were central to modern physics.

Essentially Einstein theoretically invented the laser---not practically instantiated for half a century.

Spintronics? Nanomaterials? Tesla didn't know a thing about intrinsic spin. He just was nuts, later on.