Typical High Temperature Superconductor (HTS) Cable Structure
Typical High Temperature Superconductor (HTS) Cable Structure
The Surprisingly Aligned Philosophies of Nikola Tesla and Baruch Spinoza
Nikola Tesla , the visionary inventor behind alternating current (AC) electricity, and Baruch Spinoza , the 17th-century Dutch philosopher, may seem like an unlikely pair. But despite living centuries apart and in entirely different fields, their views on the universe and humanity's place within it share some surprising parallels. Determinism and a Materialistic Universe: Both Tesla and Spinoza believed in a deterministic universe governed by fixed laws. Tesla saw the universe as a giant machine, with humans as complex machines responding to external stimuli. Spinoza, through a more philosophical lens, viewed everything as an expression of a single, fundamental substance (God or Nature). This materialistic perspective rejected the idea of a universe governed by chance or the supernatural. The Illusion of Free Will: Neither Tesla nor Spinoza believed in free will. Tesla argued that our actions are simply reactions to external influences, while Spinoza saw them as predetermined b...
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