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That's very elegant. It's amazing (and a little terrifying) to think that he may very well have been able to mentally visualize the fluid dynamics to some exten
by mrstinton 15y ago
That's very elegant. It's amazing (and a little terrifying) to think that he may very well have been able to mentally visualize the fluid dynamics to some extent. It's not like he was consciously solving navier-stokes, but it's still incredible what some human minds are capable of.
But then, he was thinking a lot about electron flow and built up a good intuition that had wider application. That doesn't make it any less amazing to me though. I'd like to be able to do that.
- imperator 15y agoTesla was an amazing man. Though our tools are impressive, I am still far more impressed by the human mind. A good use of tools relies on the exploration of consciousness. If both are not in harmony, we get mediocre results.
- gcb 15y agoa patent is a record of the working device, not the process used to get to it. thinking of anyone as a supernatural genius is nonsense. most of the time.
- jacquesm 15y agoIn the case of Da Vinci, Einstein, Tesla and a select number of others I think that thinking of them that way is well justified. The general idea is that if the time is ripe for an idea then someone somewhere will have it, and if that someone would not exist someone else will have the idea a short while after. But for the men mentioned above I highly doubt that would be the case, they were both way ahead of the curve at the time.