Nikola Tesla Books
TESLA AFTERWORD stances taught himself advanced mathematics, in almost complete ignorance of what had been going on in the academic world over past decades. Working in total isolation Ramanujan produced a number of remarkable theorems that came to the notice of Godfrey Hardy, the leading pure mathematician of the early years of the twentieth century. Hardy recognized Ramanujan's genius and invited him to Cambridge where the two worked together for a handful of years before Ramanujan's death. Again we hypothesise that a highly active and skillful mind is able to work behind the scenes while we get on with our daily business. Or is this explanation perhaps too reductionist? Ramanujan himself would not have liked it. For him, the mathematical theorems were given by a goddess. Wagner, Strauss and Brahms all wrote about the transcendent state they entered during composition. It was as if they were reaching a source that lay beyond themselves. Jungians would perhaps use the term Collective Unconscious. The ancient Chinese would prefer The Eternal, that realm in which everything exists. Others would refer to gods. Or to a source of pure truth. Were these the origin of Tesla's insights? The physicist David Bohm wrote of the Implicate Order. The world we perceive about us with our normal senses, the world so well described by Newton's laws, is, to Bohm, the Explicate Order. The Explicate Order is the normal order of space and time. It is the world of causality and of welldefined objects, with specific properties that interact with each other via the forces of nature. The Implicate order, by contrast, could be thought of as an enfolded order. It is the deeper, hidden order to the world. It is the order in which matter and mind are unified and mutually enfolded. The underlying Implicate Order reveals or projects itself into the Explicate. One could perhaps say that the true nature of the electron is present in the Implicate but its exterior manifestation into our temporal world - its Explicate order - sometimes appears as a particle and sometimes as a wave. Appearances in the Explicate may therefore appear paradoxical or complementary but within the Implicate opposites and paradoxes are reconciled. Perhaps great music, poetry and mathematics have, in a certain sense, their deeper existence in the Implicate. Or rather they exist as certain implicit forms and patterns within the Implicate that can then be project152
