✨🧲✨ #Tesla firmly believed in the luminiferous ether—a hypothetical invisible medium filling space that carried light and electromagnetic waves, rooted in 19th-century physics. He saw it as essential for explaining action at a distance and gravity.
Einstein’s special relativity (1905) eliminated the need for this classical ether, explaining phenomena like the constant speed of light without it. (General relativity later reframed space-time itself as curved, which Tesla also rejected.)
Tesla viewed relativity as overly abstract metaphysics dressed in impressive math, hiding flaws and contradicting “common sense” and prior great scientists. He insisted no relativity proposition had been proven (in 1935, evidence was growing but not as overwhelming as today—e.g., no GPS, black hole imaging, or gravitational waves yet). 🔭
