Nikola Tesla – the Secret of a Genius
BELGRADE – Nikola Tesla is the father of the information technology revolution. What is the secret of this Serbian and world genius, and what sets him apart from other scientists and elevates him on a pedestal above all of them?
Primarily, it is Tesla’s creative method which is quite unique in comparison with all other scientists, says Željko Sarić, an excellent expert and researcher of the life and achievements of our famous genius, to whom he has dedicated a novel and a number of biographical scientific publications.
As Tesla himself used to say, as a child he had an odd trait of being able to see every thought as a living three-dimensional image, even being able to pass through it with his hand. Initially it only brought him trouble, as his visions included snakes and dragons from folk tales, and it was only with difficulty he managed to drive away these thoughts. Later, when he began his interest in science in school, he was able to see the ideas that came into his thoughts as living images before his eyes. He realised that his ‘disease’ could serve to help him discover the secrets of nature. Later on in his life, every invention without exception was discovered by Tesla’s special visualisation technique.
”When I want to solve a problem and make a discovery, I never hurry, I do not think directly of the difficulty which torments me, but I leave it to my imagination to observe a solution, I come up with innumerable possibilities quite without thinking, without going into details, but connecting general laws, concepts, causes and consequences”, Sarić writes about Tesla’s scientific method in his novel Posvećenik (Dedicator).
”Numberless times, resolving the puzzle I had set myself quite by accident I achieved new discoveries which were not the topic of my research, but I discovered them from the nature of the matter in which I was involved. The initial period was only an introduction to the resolution of a problem, and then when I began thinking about an invention in detail, testing it in spirit and thoughts how it works, and detecting shortcomings by my special method of representing imaginary objects before my eyes, I knew the solution was near. I would work on the problem day and night. This would be followed by a period of constant inspiration, elation, I came to touch my solution in the dark and I waited for a flash of light in which the idea would shine in all its perfection and beauty as a flower, an unfinished Secret, but still given to him who knew how to find the path to it, in the wonderful flows of the divine and heavenly order of things and manifestations... “, Sarić says in his novel in what is an artistic interpretation of Tesla’s thinking.