The Secrets of Tesla’s and Ramanujan’s Knowledge
What do the two eccentric geniuses have in common
Nikola Tesla can be considered the founding father of modern electrical engineering. The Serbian-born inventor is one of the most profound and prolific scientists of all time who, unfortunately, had to go through a lot in his life. During the time of his death, it is reportedly stated that he died penniless and alone. We wouldn’t be able to numerous modern-day technologies if it were not for Nikola Tesla. Technologies like alternating current, electric motors, wireless communication systems, the internet, and even radio would not make out lives so much easier if it were not for him.
“From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering, but to my present view, it was a blessing in disguise for it has taught me to appreciate the inestimable value of introspection in the preservation of life, as well as a means of achievement. The pressure of occupation and the incessant stream of impressions pouring into our consciousness through all the gateways of knowledge make modern existence hazardous in many ways. Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves. The premature death of millions is primarily traceable to this cause. Even among those who exercise care, it is a common mistake to avoid imaginary, and ignore the real dangers. And what is true of an individual also applies, more or less, to a people as a whole.”
— Nikola Tesla, Extraordinary Experiences ch. 2, My Inventions, published in 1919.
Most of the wireless technologies that we use today are because of his ideas and his research. In one of his publications, Tesla has mentioned how he solved such complicated engineering problems with the help of visualizations. He said, that the secret of his ideas and inventions lies in his unique method of visualization. He would imagine his designs and patents in his mind and would experiment with them, pretty much like how Einstein used to do thought experiments. But the difference between Tesla’s thought experiments and Einstein’s was that Einstein would imagine hypothetical situations and would try to make them consistent with his theories and mathematics. Tesla, on the other hand, would have thought experiments on his designs and inventions and would experiment with them, often checking their flaws and failures and he would do all this by taking himself to sort of a hypnotized state of mind.
Some articles about him also mention that Tesla believed in the existence of aliens. He would often try to communicate with the life forms existing in distant galaxies. Nikola Tesla was confident that he could communicate with extraterrestrial life forms. He has mentioned about such extraordinary set of skills of him in a letter that he wrote in December 1909 to the American Red Cross.
In this letter, he has clearly stated that he communicated with beings on mars. Nikola Tesla was a genius. He was an engineering polymath. Another mysterious fact about Nikola Tesla was that he and most of his works were closely associated with the number “3”. This is quite fascinating to comprehend because “3” is some kind of a symbol. Whenever anyone claims to communicate with any sort of powerful or mysterious entity, they often do so in the forms of symbols and signs. The information is exchanged in the form of some mysterious codes and Tesla was no new to this phenomenon. But the question remains the same: why was ‘3’ such an important number for the outstanding genius?
Throughout his life, Tesla always dreamed of inventing wireless electricity. He had significant contributions to wireless communication systems. But he wanted to make it more efficient and cost-effective. What if he has already invented such technology and he used it for communicating with otherworldly beings?
Srinivasa Ramanujan shouldn’t be a new name for you if you are reading this article. Ramanujan is one of the most brilliant mathematicians in human history who had extraordinary abilities to formulate complicated mathematical theorems and formulas which otherwise were incomprehensible to other mathematicians of the time. The great mathematical prodigy once stated that,
“While asleep, I had an unusual experience. There was a red screen formed by flowing blood, as it were. I was observing it. Suddenly a hand began to write on the screen. I became all attention. That hand wrote a number of elliptic integrals. They stuck to my mind. As soon as I woke up, I committed them to writing.”
In several scholarly publications, it is mentioned that Ramanujan had a unique ability to communicate with some higher beings who would guide him to the ultimate truths of the mathematical universe. Ramanujan used to believe that someone from another world would come to his dreams and guide him. The entity or power that he believed guided him was a Hindu god named Namagiri. Namagiri was the main god ‘Kul devata’ for him and his family. Before beginning any research and digging himself into the realm of mathematics he would always take the blessings of his god.
Surprisingly, before every single mathematical discovery of Srinivasa Ramanujan, he would go to sleep in a hope that his god would come and guide him through the process. He believed that this divineness was the key to all his discoveries. Once he would be in deep sleep, all those complicated mathematical formulations would appear and he would receive much important mathematical information from there.
Ramanujan once distinctly mentioned in one of his writings, that once in his dream he saw a red wall where a hand suddenly appeared and started writing mathematical equations one after another. Ramanujan memorized all those equations and when he woke up he checked the validity of all of them. He mentioned that all those equations were extremely important, true, and way ahead of their time. Many of Ramanujan’s works were ahead of their time and quite new for anyone to understand. To this day, a lot of his works haven’t been decoded and proved. Did Ramanujan have an extraordinary divine ability to talk to otherworldly beings? Could he communicate with God?
This is something that I find quite amusing about both these prolific personalities. These brains have inspired generations of inventors and thinkers and their works and their minds have never had any substitutes. How did they get their ideas and what exactly were their secrets of knowledge is something to ponder upon. Irrespective of their ideologies and beliefs, their works have made remarkable impacts upon modern human civilization and will do so for coming thousands of years.
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