The Greatest Mind The World Ever Known

["IRISH" RUFUS MURPHY]

In 1943, he died penniless and in a one bedroom apartment. Though he is credited with the invention of the radio, founding the science of resonance, laying the ground work for radar technology, developing the first particle accelerator (particle beam weapon), unmanned machinery (submarines, torpedos, planes, etc), and many other inventions we find useful today from television to alternative fuels and telecommunications.

Nikola Tesla. He is also credited with laying ground work for a Unified Field Theory, which Einstein later elaborated on in what was to become known as 'Relativity'.

In his later years he was deemed a mad scientist, as he made claims that he could split the earth like an apple with strategically placed bombs, that someday mankind could not only have wireless communication but also listen to music and watch television all in a machine small enough to fit inside a coat pocket (the cell phone), and that someday mankind could not only use electromagnetism for flight and travel but for force fields and to manipulate time and matter.

Though, even today, some of his ideas seem beyond the relm of reason, Tesla's work and theories expanded the science of physics/quantum physics as he thought of teleportation, time travel, and the like in a manner that was dead serious and seemed no longer impossible.

Possibly the single most mind blowing invention of his was the concept of using ionic propulsion as a new means of transportation, and this he thought up during World War 2, when it wouldn't be until the last decade or so that the concept has been implicated more and more into science and technology.

The most 'beyond reason' idea of his was to somehow use electricity in collaboration with the human brain, to help project vision/thought through the eye...wasn't until 2000 that the concept was made a reality with the blind, when super computers hooked through the brain could make an artificial eye for those who couldn't see.

His ideas and theories were considered nothing more than the ravings of a lunatic mind, but little by little it seems that Tesla's words become more and more a reality. His genius for having such an 'insight' for weapons and technology of the future became the inspiration for Mark Twain's A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and even sprouted off rumors that Tesla was sent back in time to try and stop mankind from raging more war.

Nonetheless, outside of Einstein (whom Tesla usually argued with) and Leonardo Da Vinci, it can be argued that Nikola Tesla was the greatest mind the world ever known...oddly nobody in the US military cared for his thoughts on 'death rays' and the use of 'exploring rays' (radar), but they surely did in fact ransack his property taking whatever bit of information and prototypes he had kept shortly after his death. J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI later stated the case was top secret; more than 80 trunks filled with papers were seized.

[Red Venus Moon]

The goverment always got their hands in something

[Gabriel]

Originally Posted by "IRISH" RUFUS MURPHY

In 1943, he died penniless and in a one bedroom apartment. Though he is credited with the invention of the radio, founding the science of resonance, laying the ground work for radar technology, developing the first particle accelerator (particle beam weapon), unmanned machinery (submarines, torpedos, planes, etc), and many other inventions we find useful today from television to alternative fuels and telecommunications.

Nikola Tesla. He is also credited with laying ground work for a Unified Field Theory, which Einstein later elaborated on in what was to become known as 'Relativity'.

In his later years he was deemed a mad scientist, as he made claims that he could split the earth like an apple with strategically placed bombs, that someday mankind could not only have wireless communication but also listen to music and watch television all in a machine small enough to fit inside a coat pocket (the cell phone), and that someday mankind could not only use electromagnetism for flight and travel but for force fields and to manipulate time and matter.

Though, even today, some of his ideas seem beyond the relm of reason, Tesla's work and theories expanded the science of physics/quantum physics as he thought of teleportation, time travel, and the like in a manner that was dead serious and seemed no longer impossible.

Possibly the single most mind blowing invention of his was the concept of using ionic propulsion as a new means of transportation, and this he thought up during World War 2, when it wouldn't be until the last decade or so that the concept has been implicated more and more into science and technology.

The most 'beyond reason' idea of his was to somehow use electricity in collaboration with the human brain, to help project vision/thought through the eye...wasn't until 2000 that the concept was made a reality with the blind, when super computers hooked through the brain could make an artificial eye for those who couldn't see.

His ideas and theories were considered nothing more than the ravings of a lunatic mind, but little by little it seems that Tesla's words become more and more a reality. His genius for having such an 'insight' for weapons and technology of the future became the inspiration for Mark Twain's A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and even sprouted off rumors that Tesla was sent back in time to try and stop mankind from raging more war.

Nonetheless, outside of Einstein (whom Tesla usually argued with) and Leonardo Da Vinci, it can be argued that Nikola Tesla was the greatest mind the world ever known...oddly nobody in the US military cared for his thoughts on 'death rays' and the use of 'exploring rays' (radar), but they surely did in fact ransack his property taking whatever bit of information and prototypes he had kept shortly after his death. J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI later stated the case was top secret; more than 80 trunks filled with papers were seized.

Thomas Young beats out Tesla.

[Luka]

*The greatest mind the world ever knew.

[addie in main]

Originally Posted by Luka

*The greatest mind the world ever knew.

hes difinately in the running. Do a little research his accomplishments seem almost endless. Theres actually talk that he invented a flying saucer

http://www.fuel-efficient-vehicles.o...tove-motor.php

[Starfire]

Sounds like a pretty cool guy. Though if someone told me right now that in a few decades or so we'd have transporters like the Enterprise I'd say they were pretty bonkers too

[Calaba]

Originally Posted by Starfire

Sounds like a pretty cool guy. Though if someone told me right now that in a few decades or so we'd have transporters like the Enterprise I'd say they were pretty bonkers too

actually..... they have already transported photons i think it was. i forget i read so much some of it leaks out.

[Gabriel]

Who proved Newton wrong(on the theory of light), knew 12 languages at the age of fourteen, described how we see, helped decipher the Rosetta Stone, wrote 63 articles for the Encyclopedia Britannica, who was an accomplished medical doctor, and proclaimed the 'last man who knew everything'?

That would all be Thomas Young, and there is a big difference between him and Tesla.

Tesla was certainly a genius, yet it's hard to distinguish how much of what he was saying was actually possible and how much was literally nonsense.

With Young, we know for a fact everything he has done can be validated. Further, Tesla was not a polymath like Young.

Fortunate Newton... Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort...His observations of the colors of thin films [were] the origin of the next great theoretical advance, which had to await, over a hundred years, the coming of Thomas Young." - Albert Einstein

Also I believe people like Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle would be considered some of the greatest minds the world ever knew.

["IRISH" RUFUS MURPHY]

actually..... they have already transported photons i think it was. i forget i read so much some of it leaks out.

Guinness Book of Records has it down that photons (light particles) have been teleported; but it sounds more like a scanned copy of the photons, rather than the complete fission of matter and the reconstruction process after transport.

[Gabriel]

Originally Posted by Gabriel

Tesla was certainly a genius, yet it's hard to distinguish how much of what he was saying was actually possible and how much was literally nonsense.

Funny there was no rebuttal to this.

Having crazy ideas that become a reality later due to someone else doesn't necessarily make you the greatest mind who ever lived.