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Einstein viewed the atom as a fixed
unit of energy. Release of this energy
was performed by a conversion of
mass into energy. His special theory of
relativity expressed this in the now oft-
repeated E=mc
2
.
Tesla viewed energy as systems, not
singular units. To his mind, the atom was
just a part of a greater field of energy and
that the atom channeled this energy when
coaxed.
Tesla's ideas were scoffed at by physicists
as the deluded senility of an out-of-touch
engineer/scientist. Not one of them ever
seriously paid any attention to the articles
and comments of the aging inventor.
Now, over sixty years later, we are happy
to report that people are not only reviewing
his conjecturing, but are convinced the old
boy was definitely onto something.
That something is the potential existence
of a quantized field of energy which sustains
the atom and seems to be directly linked
to the atomic nucleus of all atoms.
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N
o two minds have been so ahead of their
time. Despite both emigrating to the United
States and being men of science first &
foremost, these two men were fundamentally
in opposition over the nature of the atom and
the source of it's power.
Albert Einstein was convinced that the atom's
power came from within, in the conversion from
mass to energy. Nikola Tesla was convinced
that the energy of the atom came from a field
which existed outside the atom itself.
The two men never publicly debated, except
perhaps on the pages of the journals and when
discussing their ideas with journalists.
Nikola Tesla was the father of the ac motor -
a dynamo which the world was using to power
motorcars, cities and industry. Albert Einstein
was a growing eminence and Tesla's star had
faded. The scientific community was fast
discarding the mechanical engineers for the new
physicists who realized the breakthrough of
atomic power. Atomic power was modern and
all the rage and the media catered to these
new scientific celebrities.
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