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All in all, Tesla's 1937 announcement appears to have made little or no impression upon contemporary physicists, perhaps because his statement appears to have been too vague to guess very much about the nature of his alleged theory, and appears to have been couched in language which was already receding into the distant past.
Extensive experimental testing of general relativity did not begin until about [[1960]]; furthermore, essential theoretical features of general relativity were not well understood until about this time. (See [[Golden age of general relativity]] for more information about events in the period 1960-1975 which firmly established general relativity as our gold standard theory of gravitation.) Therefore, in 1937 general relativity was not quite so solid an experimental footing as it is today. Nonetheless, by 1937, most astronomers and physicists had long accepted that general relativity gives an accurate description of solar system dynamics to within the accuracy of observation and experiment.
Therefore, while Tesla's objections to general relativity, which had little experimental verification in his day, can be accepted as legitimate questioning, his incomplete description of his own unified field theory never was a viable alternative. Today, with equally little known about it, Tesla's dynamic theory of gravity is perhaps best described as ''fringe science''.
== See also ==
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