{"id":1469,"date":"2021-11-11T10:33:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T09:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2024-06-20T21:24:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T20:24:39","slug":"an-unsuccessful-attempt-by-flat-earthers-to-catch-hold-of-tesla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/2021\/11\/11\/an-unsuccessful-attempt-by-flat-earthers-to-catch-hold-of-tesla\/","title":{"rendered":"An unsuccessful attempt by flat-Earthers to catch hold of Tesla"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Original article<\/a> (in Serbian) was published on 11\/08\/2020<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

After the pop artist Andreana Ceki\u0107 stated on the Ami G show last week that the planet Earth is a flat plate and that gravity has not been proven, a series of negative comments followed, both in the media and on social networks. To justify her claims, the singer updated the three-year-old text of the website Sputnjik on her Twitter, stating that Nikola Tesla believed that the Earth was not a planet and that the stars were attached to the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Readers of FN Tragac asked the editorial office to check the claims made by Andrea Ceki\u0107, that is, the text of the website Sputnjik. Readers\u2019 demand turned out to be justified because, in the text, Sputnjik attributed the words of the lesser-known American YouTuber Darrell Fox, who is the man behind a YouTube channel called Electric Flat Earth Hypothesis, and who believes that the Earth is a flat plate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did the controversial quote originate<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The author of the first three paragraphs of Sputnjik\u2019s text is not Nikola Tesla but the previously mentioned YouTuber Darrell Fox. Fox\u2019s words were published right before an authentic Tesla quote in a Facebook post from 2016. After that, this spread among the flat-Earthers as an authentic quote from Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tesla\u2019s original quote, which was added to the quote from the flat-Earther YouTuber Darrell Fox, read the following: \u201cAlthough we are free to think and act, we stick together in inseparable ties like stars in the sky\u201d and Tesla wrote it in the article titled \u201cThe Problem of Increasing Human Energy\u201d for Century magazine in 1900. However, after some time, this original part of the quote was changed and in some posts of flat-Earthers, it was simplified to the sentence \u201cthe stars are attached to the sky\u201d, so it reached the Sputnjik portal in that form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the comments of the Facebook post from which it all started, the American flat-Earth theorist Darrell Fox mentioned that the first sentences of the post were actually his thought, but that did not stop the spread of this false quote that served many theorists of the flat-Earth movement to link one of humanity\u2019s greatest scientists with their own understandings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tesla did not believe that the Earth was a flat plate<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Sputnjik attributed this inauthentic quote to Tesla\u2019s dynamic theory of gravity, although it is unfinished and the subject of many speculations. The former long-term director of the Nikola Tesla Museum, Dr. Branimir Jovanovic, who dedicated a large part of his academic work to Nikola Tesla, says to Tragac that the allegations from Sputnik\u2019s text are speculative and completely incorrect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTesla did announce that he was working on a dynamic theory of gravity, but he never published details, so any further story about that would be speculation and deception of the audience that wants sensation\u201d, says Dr. Jovanovic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tesla\u2019s authorial articles in which he often described the planet Earth with the English word globe<\/em>, which according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary of English has the meaning of a spherical or rounded object, proves that his work and theories that speak of the planet Earth as a flat plate do not have much in common. In the same article in which Tesla\u2019s later forged quote with the stars and the sky appears, this scientist used the word globe<\/em> 12 times to describe the planet Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Occult physics and flying saucers<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The second part of the controversial text of the website Sputnjik relies on a book by a certain William R. Line \u201cOccult Ether Physics\u201d, and besides this book, the same author wrote works titled \u201cPentagon Aliens\u201d and \u201cSpace Aliens from the Pentagon: Flying Saucers Are Man-Made Electrical Machines\u201d. The works of this author mostly deal with the assumption that the American government confiscated Nikola Tesla\u2019s writings on the dynamic theory of gravity before his death, in order to create flying saucers which they would later present as an alien creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the database of peer-reviewed scientific papers for citation Scopus, William R. Lane is an author who has never been cited. Three citations of this author appear on the site, which combines a large number of scientific papers and Google Scholar publications, although two of these are auto citations, and only one of Lin\u2019s works is available – \u201cTeslas dynamic theory of gravity\u201d published by the author\u2019s publishing house Creatopia Publications. William R. Line has no original scientific work, but that did not stop the website Sputnjik from choosing his book as a credible text for the interpretation of Tesla\u2019s work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After the pop artist Andreana Ceki\u0107 stated on the Ami G show last week that the planet Earth is a flat plate and that gravity has not been proven, a series of negative comments followed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[20,28],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fact-checks","tag-conspiracy","tag-serbia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2043,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions\/2043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}