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Sometimes Notions Get Reversed, Center of the Universe

Big Audio Dynamite – E=MC2

Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments and they wander off through equation after equation and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. 1

Nikola Tesla
Modern Mechanix and Inventions

Somebody I never met
But in a way I know
Didn’t think that
you could get
So much from a picture show

The theory of relativity he described as “a mass of error and deceptive ideas violently opposed to the teachings of great men of science of the past and even to common sense. 2

Nikola Tesla
New York Times article July 11th 1935

Einstein’s down on the beach
standing into the sand
‘Cause everything he believes
in is shattered

Counting Crows
Einstein on the Beach

Ritual ideas relativity
Only buildings no people prophecy
Time slide place to hide nudge reality
Foresight minds wide magic imagery

Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide,
no escape from reality

Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody

Space guy fell from the sky
Scratched my head and wondered why
Time slides into time
Across international dateline

Axis spins so round and round we go
Where we’re goin no one really knows
Here we, here we, here we, here we go
Feel the fire way down below

Big Audio Dynamite
The Globe

The theory, “he said, “wraps all these errors and fallacies and clothes them in magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king. Its exponents are very brilliant men, but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists. Not a single one of the relativity propositions has been proved. 3

Nikola Tesla
New York Times article July 11th 1935

Sometimes notions get reversed
Center of the universe

Notes & References:

  1. Modern Mechanix and Inventions “Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World” (July 1934)

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  2. TESLA, 79, PROMISES TO TRANSMIT FORCE
    New York Times, July 11th, 1935

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  3. Ibid.
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Songs:

Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
Big Audio Dynamite – The Globe
Imagine Dragons – America

Big Audio Dynamite – E=MC2

Is this just an illusion
That I made inside my head to get me by?

Imagine Dragons
America

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