Talk:Nikola Tesla

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Invention of radio

Tesla is not mentioned in the “history” section Wikipedia’s article about radio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio#History

88.190.182.66 (talk) 05:43, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

See also https://earlyradiohistory.us/tesla.htm

88.190.182.66 (talk) 05:44, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

Labeling

Why are you guys so obsessed with labeling? especially the Mental Health section. Labels are just verbal hallucinations that only serve to limit our conception of reality in the long run. Actualrational (talk) 19:34, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Tesla used to irradiate his own head with x-rays...

Although this sounds facetious, I am completely serious. It is known that, consistent with other types of self-experimentation he performed (it was he who stood among the giant sparks, etc.), Tesla would expose his own head to x-rays from primitive x-ray tubes getting God knows what kind of a dose; we read his descriptions of doing so and he apparently did it for long periods and said that he felt a "pleasant warmth" -- of course dentists and doctors use very short x-ray bursts and I would suggest that he was getting many, literally thousands or perhaps millions of times, the exposure that one receives from a dental x-ray and probably more like something akin to the exposure one receives during gamma-ray therapy for cancer which while intense and protracted is carefully targeted to spare healthy tissue.

But Tesla was sort of bathing his entire head with x-rays believing that they were good for him, maybe the same sort of thinking that led people to drinking radium water.

So: I submit that Tesla sadly damaged his own brain, literally killed neurons, probably a frigging lot of them and I wonder if one can correlate a decline in productivity with the time after he started to use the x-ray apparatus on himself? It is my non-professional understanding (I am not an electrical engineer) that many of his later inventions had technical flaws; in any event, after somewhere in the early 1900s, Tesla started to have financial difficulties, moving into cheaper hotels because he could no longer pay his bills.

He may well have still been brilliant and just got unlucky which happens to many inventors -- too early or misunderstood. But besides his financial troubles, he exhibited extremely bizarre behavior as he grew older -- he lived into his mid 80s but the damage from x-rays might not have affected his overall health.

I can't prove it but I think the effects of radiation on Tesla's cognitive abilities and behavior should be considered. ^{— Unsigned, by: 209.37.99.86 / talk / contribs}

Serbian Tesla crankery

I'm sure Tesla attracts a lot of Serbian crankery on YouTube. Here are some of titles: "Our Katarina is connected Tesla's device - See what your aura look like", "Nikola Tesla and the earthquake machine | Tesla's invention cause of earthquakes around the globe", "Tesla's UFO: FBI's secret documents"...ASerb (talk) 23:43, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

3 6 9 Theory

I have been hearing a lot of woo about Tesla, lately. He supposedly knew that the numbers 3, 6 and 9 are the "keys to the universe." They are supposedly associated with energy, frequency and vibration. I can't find any evidence that he ever said that. One person showed me a geometric design with triangles and loops that was supposed to represent the three parts of the triune brain: neocortex, limbic, r-complex. The triune brain theory didn't come out until the 1960s. Tesla died in 1943.

https://www.truthorfiction.com/nikola-tesla-369-theory/ ^{— Unsigned, by: 81.171.63.93 / talk / contribs}