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He also wasn't quite as open-minded and forward thinking as some believe: “I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have no proper
by aeternum 4y ago
He also wasn't quite as open-minded and forward thinking as some believe:
“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.”
- krsrhe 4y agoRelativity doesn’t say space has to be curved; that’s just an interpretation. You could interpret relativity only as curved paths in flat space due to gravity, instead of flat paths in curved space. The math is much uglier, though, so in a metaphysical sense, Tesla was wrong. Einstein famously said “god does not play dice” regarding quantum mechanics, and “not more open-minded than Einstein” isn’t much of an insult.