Whereever you look, it is JJ Thomson who is considered the discoverer of the electron as a fundamental sub-atomic particle in 1897. But, if you look further, there had been a long discussion about the nature of cathode rays; in short, British physicists assigned a particle character to those rays (Sir William Crookes, a friend of Tesla’s), whereas German physicists in this controversy opted for a wave character. Tesla, in a newspaper article (”On Roentgen rays”, Electrical Review, March 18, 1896), wrote: “I see in these shocks a further evidence of larger particles thrown off from the bulb“. In his discussion about the topic with Thomson, Tesla grounded his conclusion on the personal experience of a “sometimes even painful, shock in the eye“. This characterizes Tesla’s method: it wasn’t scientific in a lot of senses, but he discovered scientific phenomena earlier than his contemporaries. As Boris Tadic, president of Serbia, puts it: “There are not many from this region who grew to realize their visions. Those who did are our common heritage.”

I. The new Tesla documentary “On the Road to Tesla” was invited to take part in dragonforum workshop, starting March 10.  So, a new docu-fiction on Nikola Tesla, the man who invented the 2oth century is on the way. It will be inspiring to see Tesla’s life, his ways and his impact on technology and modern society in fabulous pictures. II. The new 43- minute presentation on Tesla will be held in Vienna on March 12, during the opening night of the Tesla Symposion, with Tesla celibrities such as Konstantin Meyl, PhD., Joerg Schauberger, Paul laViolette, PhD., and Leslie Szabo, presenting his 50 KW- overunity-system. Come to see the future!

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“It must be clear to every one that soon some new source of power supply must be opened up…” is a conclusion in one of Nikola Tesla’s lesser known articles.  In “The Mission of science” (Free Press Detroit, 2. Sep. 1900) Tesla foresaw energy supplied ”by the energy of the medium…”, and what he really meant was sustainable energy (in our words). At that time, Tesla was sure he would live to see a world abundant in energy, sustainable energy. Today, not enough people listen, or care, or even do something - a mammouth re-orientation into the direction of sustainable energy supply is necessary. You can’t image how foolish and common human ignorance still is. Most of the people are even too idle to think about new ways of doing things, they just refuse everything. Can this still be true: Crisis, what crisis? Just recently, a huge German Museum for technology refused to present Nikola Tesla - not even a presentation juiced up with one of those Tesla roadsters would help: “Currently, there is no need from our side for a presentation on Tesla.” What?

Since some time there is a kind of ‘discussion’ going on that Tesla has caused the Tunguska incident. The logic behind this ‘discussion’ is very simple: Tesla had built Wardenclyffe; Tesla had announced “bolts of Thor” - his death-ray concept - and Tesla wanted to show his concept was working. Mixing all this together, there you have Tesla causing a catastrophic explosion just to sell his invention -voila the mad scientist is born. As long as this kind of ‘discussion’ is going on, Tesla will be perceived as a madman.  Sorry.

67 years ago, Nikola Tesla was seen for the last time - alive. Next day would be orthodox Christmas, but Tesla was dead already. Alone in room #3327 in the New Yorker Hotel, Tesla left this world.

Tesla is the perfect example for the failed genius. Furthermore, you can show a lot of the history of the past 150 years with Tesla. He is also a role model for what not to do in the future, because men’s most dangerous enemy is his own hubris.  Tesla regarded the cosmos as a gigantic building site, and himself as the construction manager. This attitude had to fail in the end.  All Best for 2010!