Kutipan “Earth is a Realm” Yang Bukan Berasal dari Nikola Tesla

Kaum Bumi datar keliru mengaitkan kutipan “Earth is a realm” kepada Nikola Tesla dan keliru mengganggap hal tersebut “bukti” seakan Tesla penganut Bumi datar.

Seseorang menulis omong kosong pseudosains, lalu menambah kutipan Tesla setelahnya. Kaum Bumi datar keliru mengira keduanya berasal dari Tesla & menjadi hoaks Tesla percaya Bumi datar.

Pernyataan Tesla berasal dari “The Problem of Increasing Human Energy” dimana Tesla menyebut kata “globe” 12×, “gravity” 4×, “planet” 10×. Jelaslah bahwa Tesla bukan penganut Bumi datar.

Sumber dari masalah ini adalah sebuah posting di Facebook yang mengutip Tesla dan sekaligus mengutip seorang pengguna Facebook bernama “Darrell Fox”.

“Earth is a realm, it is not a planet. It is not an object, therefore, it has no edge. Earth would be more easily defined as a system environment. Earth is also a machine, it is a Tesla coil. The sun and moon are powered wirelessly with the electromagnetic field (the Aether). This field also suspends the celestial spheres with electo-magnetic levitation. Electromag levitation disproves gravity because the only force you need to counter is the electromagnetic force, not gravity. The stars are attached to the FIRMAMENT.”

Setelah itu orang-orang mengutip kedua pernyataan tersebut, dan lama kelamaan, tak sedikit yang mengira keduanya merupakan pernyataan dari Tesla.

Yang merupakan kutipan pernyataan dari Tesla hanyalah kalimat yang terakhir:

“Though free to think and act, we are held together like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them, each of us is only part of a whole.”

Oleh pihak yang tidak bertanggung jawab, bagian ini bahkan juga dimanipulasi menjadi:

“The stars are attached to the firmament.”

Pernyataan Nikola Tesla tersebut adalah kutipan dari artikel tulisan Nikola Tesla yang berjudul “The Problem of Increasing Human Energy with Special References to the Harnessing of the Sun’s Energy” yang dimuat di Century Magazine, bulan Juni 1900.

Kalimat yang ditulis Tesla hanyalah sebuah ungkapan mengenai kebersamaan umat manusia, dan sama sekali tidak ada hubungannya dengan bintang, bentuk Bumi atau gerakan Bumi.

Di artikel yang sama, Tesla bahkan beberapa kali menyebut Bumi dengan istilah ‘globe’:

This metal, it would seem, has an origin entirely different from that of the rest of the globe.

It is a well-known fact that the interior portions of the globe are very hot, the temperature rising, as observations show, with the approach to the center at the rate of approximately 1 degree C. for every hundred feet of depth.

The difficulties of sinking shafts and placing boilers at depths of, say, twelve thousand feet, corresponding to an increase in temperature of about 120 degrees C., are not insuperable, and we could certainly avail ourselves in this way of the internal heat of the globe.

By realizing such a plan, we should be enabled to get at any point of the globe a continuous supply of energy, day and night.

I was confident, however, that with properly designed machinery signals could be transmitted to any point of the globe, no matter what the distance, without the necessity of using such intermediate stations.

The observation of this wonderful phenomenon impressed me strongly that communication at any distance could be easily effected by its means, provided that apparatus could be perfected capable of producing an electric or magnetic change of state, however small, in the terrestrial globe or environing medium.

That communication without wires to any point of the globe is practicable with such apparatus would need no demonstration, but through a discovery which I made I obtained absolute certitude.

For instance, by their use we may produce at will, from a sending-station, an electrical effect in any particular region of the globe; we may determine the relative position or course of a moving object, such as a vessel at sea, the distance traversed by the same, or its speed; or we may send over the earth a wave of electricity traveling at any rate we desire, from the pace of a turtle up to lightning speed.

My measurements and calculations have shown that it is perfectly practicable to produce on our globe, by the use of these principles, an electrical movement of such magnitude that, without the slightest doubt, its effect will be perceptible on some of our nearer planets, as Venus and Mars.

Its practical consummation would mean that energy would be available for the uses of man at any point of the globe, not in small amounts such as might be derived from the ambient medium by suitable machinery, but in quantities virtually unlimited, from waterfalls.

Men could settle down everywhere, fertilize and irrigate the soil with little effort, and convert barren deserts into gardens, and thus the entire globe could be transformed and made a fitter abode for mankind.

On the other hand if at any point of the globe energy can be obtained in limited quantities from the ambient medium by means of a self-acting heat-engine or otherwise, the conditions will remain the same as before.

Jika kamu memiliki teman yang ketahuan masih menyebarkan kutipan ini, kamu bisa bisa katakan ke temanmu untuk menghentikan aktivitas pencatutan nama baik Tesla ini.

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