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==Tesla's views on special and general relativity==
Tesla was an outspoken critic of [[relativity theory]], vehemently rejecting the notion that energy could be obtained from "conversion" of rest mass long after mainstream physicists had accepted this.
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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. 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. Tesla's murky description of his unified field theory could perhaps have been described as ''fringe science'' in 1937. Today it could only be described as ''[[not even wrong]]''.
== See also ==
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