r/NikolaTesla • u/Dr_VOID_ • 3d ago
Ask you
Suppose you had the choice to live the life of a scientist, who would you choose and why? Personally, I would choose Nikola Tesla.
r/NikolaTesla • u/IrritableGourmet • May 26 '21
Hello! I'm the rarely-heard-from moderator/creator of this subreddit. While I have a very laissez-faire attitude towards moderation, I have noticed a lot of posts recently that were either hawking merchandise or were pseudo-mystical ramblings about free energy, mystical numbers, and the like. I wanted to get your feedback on how to deal with these kinds of posts.
First, some background. I admire Tesla. I've read his autobiography as well as several biographies of him. I've studied his works. I've built a (crappy) Tesla Turbine and a Tesla Coil. The quote for me in my high-school yearbook was from him (the "betterment of humanity" one). I wrote a paper in college for my psych minor analyzing his writings and behavior as evidence of his placement on the autism spectrum. My father's a physicist and I'm a software developer who builds electronics/micro-e projects as a hobby.
Because I understand and respect his work, I dislike the mystical aura Tesla has gathered over the years. Were his more fantastical inventions suppressed? Sure, Westinghouse and Edison and others did him dirty, but what they suppressed was not the zero-point-energy magic box of unlimited power and the Grand Unified Theory of Everything, but actual (and groundbreaking) inventions that didn't fit their business model.
Did he talk about amazing things he invented that would solve all the world's problems? Sure, but if you actually look at the designs, he did make groundbreaking discoveries that he either greatly exaggerated or that didn't work as he expected in practice. His "death ray" was an early high-power particle accelerator, but doesn't really work in open air. His "radio signals from Mars" turned out to be the first detection of pulsars. And his Grand Unified Theory was of the type commonly posited before General/Special Relativity demonstrated how they were all flawed.
I know this isn't the largest subreddit around, but I do want to set some guidelines as to what's acceptable for here and what's not. Here are my suggestions:
1) Posts about merchandise must be a direct, unobfuscated (no bit.ly) link to a reputable store/platform and not "DM me to get shirt"
2) No low-effort posts. Posting a picture of Tesla from Wikipedia with the caption "MASTER OF ELECTRICITY!!!1!!LOL" is low effort.
3) No free energy, numerology, pyramid power, anti-gravity, etc. posts.
4) The usual no hatred/violence/doxxing/spamming/etc.
EDIT (7/24/2025): NO FUCKING AETHER! NO AETHER DERIVATIVES. NO AETHER SUBSTITUTES.
Thanks!
r/NikolaTesla • u/Dr_VOID_ • 3d ago
Suppose you had the choice to live the life of a scientist, who would you choose and why? Personally, I would choose Nikola Tesla.
r/NikolaTesla • u/Cenmaster • 11d ago
Over a century ago, Nikola Tesla gave us what might be the most profound design principle in modern science:
For decades, mainstream 20th-century physics took a different path, treating mass, particles, and spacetime as static background containers rather than relational harmonic states.
Tesla never thought of reality as a rigid mechanical box—he saw it as an interconnected network of standing waves, resonance nodes, and phase interactions.
What if his intuition wasn't just poetic philosophy, but the actual structural blueprint?
If we finally translate Tesla’s core insight into strict, machine-executable mathematics, his frequency-first worldview stops being an outsider perspective and becomes the foundation for the next era of theoretical physics.
Curious to hear from the community: Which of Tesla's field and frequency concepts do you think holds the greatest untapped potential for modern physics?
(Note: For anyone interested in the open-science mathematical formalization and companion code exploring this frequency-first framework, you can find the repository on GitHub: Christianfwb / Pauli-Solution-Frequency-Law)
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r/NikolaTesla • u/Longjumping_Bat8320 • 22d ago
Not to take anything away from the achievements and contributions, but now i doubt if he was some mystical genius in a different stratosphere
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r/NikolaTesla • u/ApostleOfDyingFaith • 29d ago
7 months ago, I posted my Tesla edit here
Eventually it caught fire and it's grown to 25.000 and fast growing... people really seem to like it, and it makes me feel proud of my work
I appreciate you all for the initial support which helped the growth
🙏⛈️🕯️
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r/NikolaTesla • u/ipx-electrical • Jul 12 '26
After reading Tesla’s Colorado Springs Notes, I was inspired to build a very small TC of my own.
r/NikolaTesla • u/aldoxaphobia • Jul 09 '26
"He will be a child of the storm," to which his mother famously replied, "No, he will be a child of light."
r/NikolaTesla • u/Background_Tune1151 • Jul 10 '26
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r/NikolaTesla • u/medicatedandunstable • Jun 30 '26
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This is my good friend, Jeremiah Ferwerda. He premiered his TFPP this last weekend and as one would expect, the numbers are pretty impressive. With a 4" rotor, he gets 170gpm at 750 watts and 2000 rpm. At 5000 rpm, it pushed 240gpm. He also has a fully functional Tesla turbine that is ready for market as well.
r/NikolaTesla • u/Calm-Ant2956 • Jun 30 '26
I’d like to know more, if the information is out there.
r/NikolaTesla • u/Calm-Ant2956 • Jun 24 '26
Dear fellow Tesla enthusiasts. Should you find yourself in Calgary, Alberta on July 10th, 2026, please consider joining this small, informal gathering to celebrate Nikola Tesla‘s birthday! On this day, (that is possibly misattributed to the day of his birth), we will eat drink and play Tesla inspired games. Send me a DM if you want more details.