The mind-boggling sight of extraterrestrial spaceships entering Earth's atmosphere has
been used in film and literature since at least H.G. Wells' renowned 1898 novel, The
War of the Worlds.
For more than a century, humanity has debated the ramifications and potential conflict of
first contact with a potentially hostile extraterrestrial species.
As the twentieth century began, curiosity about the possibility of life on Mars and
possibly civilizations there led to a search for signals.
Could we communicate with a world beyond our own?
How could we search for signals and communications from other worlds?
However, recent findings at the Tesla Museum indicate that the inventor actually interacted
with Martians.
What is the backstory to all of this?
Stick with us until the end to learn all about these mysterious signals!
Nikola Tesla, widely known as the "Father of Physics," was an unsung hero for most of
history.
Tesla was a visionary, a genius, and a selfless inventor who was primarily concerned with
harnessing electricity in order to power the entire planet and serve humanity for all eternity.
He invented alternating current, which transformed the field of electricity and served as the
foundation for the current electric industry.
The brilliant Nikola Tesla is credited with several ground-breaking inventions.
Throughout his career, he designed pumps, turbines, speed indicators, and other devices.
Even in his waning years, he continued to do scientific research and innovate.
Unfortunately, many of his projects stopped or went unfinished due to a lack of constant
financial backing, rival propaganda, discrimination, and a series of unfortunate life events.
Nikola Tesla states that in July 1899, while testing a magnifying transmitter designed
to follow storms, he received some form of communication from an unknown source.
He was tracking thunderstorms 600 miles away one night when he heard these beeps.
And that was three beats in a row.
As a result, it was mathematical.
And it just didn't make sense to him.
And the more he thought about it, the more he realized they were from outer space, possibly
from the Martians.
Mars' orbit puts it near to Earth on occasion, roughly once every 1.8 years on average.
And during one of those close contacts, he thought he was detecting up signals from Mars.
Tesla recounted this extraterrestrial communication and declared his belief in extraterrestrials
in an article for "Collier's Weekly" titled "Talking with the Planets." in February 1901.
He said: “I have observed electrical actions, which have appeared inexplicable.
Faint and uncertain though they were, they have given me a deep conviction and foreknowledge,
that ere long all human beings on this globe, as one, will turn their eyes to the firmament
above, with feelings of love and reverence, thrilled by the glad news: "Brethren!
We have a message from another world, unknown and remote.
It reads: one… two… three…"
Tesla got fixated on locating additional radio transmissions from distant planets.
Tesla theorized that the extraterrestrials who were sending him these communications
had been here for a millennium and had been manipulating humankind from the beginning.
Tesla stated in a letter to The New York Times in 1910 that the signals came from Mars.
“Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these there must
exist life under all conditions and phases of development.
Personally, I base my faith on the feeble planetary electrical disturbances which I
discovered in the summer of 1899, and which, according to my investigations, could not
have originated from the sun, the moon or Venus.
Further study science has satisfied me that they must have emanated from Mars.
All doubt in this regard will soon be dispelled."
But just how far did these communications go?
Did it eventually lead to him being able to get vital information that helped him create
his inventions?
Many people think this is what happened, and that through his inventions, Tesla communicated
directly with aliens.
Tesla's scientific colleagues, however, rejected him after hearing the unexpected news and
began labelling him a mad scientist.
So, at his pinnacle, Nikola Tesla was literally electrifying the planet.
Then there was the incident with JP Morgan, the richest man in the world at the time.
And after that, the infamous conflict with Edison, who was also a powerful man.
It was later discovered that he may have been attempting to send a signal to the planet
Mars.
His adversaries, however, took advantage of this fact in an attempt to tarnish his reputation.
It was claimed in the early 1900s that Tesla was being considered for the Nobel Prize.
But, for some reason, he never did.
Even today, scientists do not give him the credit he deserves.
Tesla talked about atoms acting like solar systems and light acting as both a wave and
a particle.
Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for his theory that light behaved like a particle.
So why is he excluded from the history of quantum physics when he belongs right at the
center of it?
Well, he really is unfortunate in this regard.
The Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade, Serbia, which has more than 160,000 documents, provides
unique glimpse into some of Tesla's future aspirations, including what some believe to
be sketches of spacecraft.
Tesla began working on his flying machine in 1910, according to historians, emphasizing
on the use of field propulsion, or anti-gravity.
Tesla is thought to have found that enormous amounts of energy may truly produce lift in
an object.
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Tesla frequently mentioned anti-gravity spacecraft that could
be powered by his Wardenclyffe Towers, which would be transmitting power.
He said that these ships lacked wings and fuel.
They were entirely powered by electricity.
But were Tesla's ideas really the first of their kind, or may comparable vehicles have
visited Earth in the distant past, as ancient astronaut theorists propose?
There are references to vimanas in ancient Indian epics, which were flying chariots used
by the gods to go from one spot to another.
Some of these vimanas could change direction at the drop of a hat with no effort.
So, from a modern standpoint, it would appear that some sort of anti-gravity technology
was employed.
The present UFO phenomenon could be used to connect this from the ancient to the modern
world.
As a result, the claim that Tesla worked on an anti-gravity machine is quite likely.
Are images of flying machines proof that Tesla got extraterrestrial information to create
anti-gravity spaceships?
And, if the so-called mad scientist did make contact with extraterrestrials, is it likely
he secretly carried out their wishes?
That seems unlikely, but one thing is certain: he was the type of genius we may never see
again.
But, if extraterrestrials ever contact us, how will we understand them?
We may never know what Tesla detected, but possibilities vary from user error to the
chance that he detected signals from Jupiter's magnetosphere.
Despite the fact that Mars is devoid of the Martians Tesla intended to find, the prospect
of intelligent alien life continues to inspire many exoplanet hunters, astrobiologists, and
SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) researchers.
Many people do not realize, however, that when such a discovery is confirmed, linguists
and anthropologists will take control.
Because, once we've answered the fundamental question, "Are we alone?"
the next question that usually arises is, "Who are you?"
This is a considerably more difficult question to answer than many astronomers think.
Because there is no apparent common ground or linguistic model to follow, the methods
that linguists have painstakingly created to translate unfamiliar languages is rendered
meaningless.
Most current solutions, for example, presume a language with a structure based on units
of sound.
When linguists approach an unknown language, the first step is to divide spoken sentences
into repeated units of sound in order to notice patterns that could reveal meaning.
In the absence of such units, a written language can be studied for equivalent linguistic meaning
structures known as morphemes, although this frequently necessitates a prohibitively large
corpus of data.
Even so, all of these procedures, which are sometimes referred to together as combinatorial
linguistics, were honed for use in making sense of archaic, dead terrestrial languages
and require a thorough archaeological background to use effectively.
Even Noam Chomsky's famous Universal Grammar theory assumes that certain language structures
are universal and have a genetic and thus distinctively human origin.
Developing a way to interpret an unknown language without depending on analogies to Earth languages
appears to be a seemingly impossible task.
It is entirely feasible that an extraterrestrial language is soundless or does not have a written
component, in which case these standard methods would be ineffective if we were confronted
with such an alien language.
Nonetheless, scientists — physicists, mathematicians, and astronomers — have attempted to address
this issue on the basis that arithmetic and physics are a form of universal language.
The SETI Institute, which was created in 1984, is a partnership of these experts dedicated
to the search for and interpretation of an intelligent extraterrestrial message.
SETI not only searches for signals from distant stars, but also houses a diverse group of
scientists working on planetary astronomy and astrobiology initiatives.
In the 1960s, Frank Drake, Carl Sagan, and a group of other scientists began looking
for signs of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.
It became easier to detect signals from much further away when it became evident that there
was no intelligent life on other planets in the solar system.
The Drake Equation was a method of estimating the number of civilizations in the galaxy
that might be emitting radio signals that we could detect.
In general, Sagan and Drake were ecstatic about the prospect of contacting intelligent
life elsewhere in the universe because they believed in the progressive worth of technology
and science.
Those civilizations, which may have survived longer than ours, would have likely moved
on from trivial things like war, destruction, and domination.
Many people looked for signs from Mars in light patterns at the turn of the twentieth
century.
The invention of radio considerably increased the scope of that quest beyond our solar system.
While scientists have yet to discover signals from another planet, they are not giving up.
Indeed, we took the initiative to reach out first, and aboard both Voyagers, we composed
universal messages for the ages.
Let us know in the comments whether you believe Tesla received signals from Mars or whether
he was just a mad scientist.