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Entry: The Galileo Myth Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_galileo_myth#15647 Post contents: Didn't Tesla repudiate relativity ? I realize that referring to Tesla, in spite of his achievements, risks ridicule.* Is it possible that relativity is wrong ? We take it as dogmatic fact, that relativity is 'true'. I have faced more dogmatic arguments proposed in favor of established academic science, and absolutely unwilling to concede that 'Scientific Method' can be as influenced by personal beliefs, as any faith based supposition. I find modern adherents to 'Science' as dogmatic as religious fundamentalists. Is Christianity the only religious group that has castigated, or 'put heretics to death', somehow I don't think so. I'm sure Islam, and Judaism have time honored traditions of stoning, or putting to death by various means, those who depart from hallowed tradition. It seems to me that Tesla, whose myriad inventions form the basis of much of the modern technological world, is treated with the same heretical contempt, as we believe Galileo to have been treated. Tesla, for all his eccentricities, committed the heresy of fiercely repudiating the work of the High Priest of Modern Science, Einstein. * Theories attributed to Tesla from later in his life, about signals from outer space, that he took to be of extraterrestrial origin, are often cited to discredit him. But in fact those signals of extraterrestrial origin were real, and his experiments into understanding them were the first radio-telescope technologies. What he was receiving was stellar 'noise' and background radiation. Sent at: 2008 12 02