Swamiji’s dialogue with Nikola Tesla
' Among the many scientists who embraced Vedantic thought, the story of legendary inventor Nikola Tesla is an interesting one.
While interacting with Vivekananda, Tesla was struck by the resemblance between the Samkhya (a Hindu philosophical stream) theory of matter and energy and that of modern physics. Swami Vivekananda, in the year l895 wrote in a letter to a friend, "Mr. Tesla was charmed to hear about the Vedantic Prana and Akasha and the Kalpas ...Mr. Tesla thinks he can demonstrate mathematically that force and matter are reducible to potential energy. In that case the Vedantic cosmology will be placed on the surest of foundations.... I clearly see their perfect union with modern science."
Tesla did not succeed in providing a mathematical solution, but a few years later in 1905, Albert Einstein's E=MC2 would establish this connection between energy and matter. '
While interacting with Vivekananda, Tesla was struck by the resemblance between the Samkhya (a Hindu philosophical stream) theory of matter and energy and that of modern physics. Swami Vivekananda, in the year l895 wrote in a letter to a friend, "Mr. Tesla was charmed to hear about the Vedantic Prana and Akasha and the Kalpas ...Mr. Tesla thinks he can demonstrate mathematically that force and matter are reducible to potential energy. In that case the Vedantic cosmology will be placed on the surest of foundations.... I clearly see their perfect union with modern science."
Tesla did not succeed in providing a mathematical solution, but a few years later in 1905, Albert Einstein's E=MC2 would establish this connection between energy and matter. '