"Space-time" doesn't exist, but the "aether" does. We should be looking to real scientist like Nikola Tesla to find our way forward.
Tesla is a truly fascinating person in American (and prior to that - Slavic) history....
To say he's overlooked doesn't quite explain it..... this is off the top of my head (may come back and cite from the book I note below)
He had weird habits and quirks (apparently couldn't stand to look at women's pearl earrings, had to have napkins delivered to his table in some kind of # that was divisible by 9 or the like....) -- but he was the epitome of a person / scientist who TRULY "thought outside the box"
He was an immigrant from Serbia as I recall and he arrived off the proverbial boat with a small handful of change in his pockets and little more.......
He definitely made use of the elements of a showman with some of his presentations from what I've read .... but why not?
The man who had a cult following him -- believing he came from another planet -- was probably going to seem a bit unconventional no matter what he did
He demonstrated wireless remote control of unmanned submersibles (not to scale of course) in or around 1905-1908?
He churned out innovations like neon lighting, radio transmissions/communications, wireless power, he discovered quasars or a new type of pulsar I do believe -- and made the creation of many other artifacts possible.....without ever really pursuing (or considering) patents / non-disclosure acts or any business angle to his work WHATSOEVER.....
Ultimately he claimed to have done much more -
Some of his more 'advanced' claims were reportedly demonstrated as well -- like his "Seismic Weapon"
(no doubt he didn't consider it a weapon - I believe he was just making his point about understanding 'frequencies' in order to understand 'the universe'
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The later portion of his life is remarkably sad
I'll leave it at that
The US Offices of Alien Affairs raided his apartment after he died and seized many papers etc........they did this under fuzzy authority since Nikola was a US Citizen by then
Later, when the nascent Yugoslavia petitioned the US for many of his effects so they could erect a museum to their native son ...... the US returned ALMOST everything,........as it turns out the USG's official response was that they "LOST" many of Tesla's more obscure/advanced/oblique papers and records
I own one book on Tesla -
"Tesla - Man Out of Time" by M. Cheney....... it's a VERY entertaining read and I'd recommend it to Elect-Engineer types as well as laymen who simply want to read about a fascinating innovator:
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Personally - I am CONFIDENT we now have Weather Manipulation capabilities and & Seismic Weapons because of Mr Tesla -- probably more