Magnus_Rex wrote:
Fnord wrote:
To revive the old "Was Tesla an Aspie?" meme.
Oh, that. Well, I have another hypothesis: was Tesla a time-traveller?
Not bloody likely. Retrograde time-travel is prohibited by the Principle of Causality - The cause must occur before the effect. Thus, you can not have the "arrival" of a time-traveler occurring before his future "departure", so there is no possibility that Nicola Tesla came from the future (especially since there are records of his birth...)
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Nikola Tesla was born on 10 July (O.S. 28 June) 1856 to Serb parents in the village of Smiljan, Austrian Empire (modern-day Croatia). His father, Milutin Tesla, was a priest of the Serbian Orthodox Church. Tesla's mother, Đuka Tesla (née Mandić), whose father was also a Serbian Orthodox priest, had a talent for making home craft tools and for memorizing many Serbian epic poems, even though she had never learned how to read. Tesla's progenitors were from Western Serbia, near Montenegro.
Since there are records of his birth, it is invalid to claim that he was any more of a prograde time-traveler than anyone else - we all travel through time at the rate of one second per second.
Nicola Tesla was just a very smart guy who had
no aptitude for business, and who thus could not compete with other very smart guys who did (Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, Charles Steinmetz, Alexander Bell, et cetera...)