Nicola Tesla also claimed relativity was a bunch of BS.
“Ron Hatch holds the main patents for GPS.”
No, he does not. Your reading comprehension just sucks. He holds patents related to using GPS but not for the NavStar satellite system itself.
There is a lot to mainstream science that is sorta based on groupthink with limited experimenting. The book by Kuhn regarding the structure of scientific revolutions is enlightening.
We see groupthink all the time...coffee: good/bad,
Carb loading: good/bad, free speech: good/bad, etc...
No, because it's not in any of the physics and Relativity books I had to study. So, honestly, I don't believe it because of all the other things that depend on it.
Tesla was right on a lot of things but also wrong on many things.
To name 3 things off the top of my head he was dead wrong on:
1. Tesla didn’t accept atomic theory and
2. Didn’t think work in atomic energy would amount to anything. (Said that in 1931.) The people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki would beg to differ!
3. Didn’t think radioactive process were internal to the atom. According to him, the phenomena of radioactivity was not the result of forces within the radioactive substance but by the rays emitted by the Sun. Again, the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki would beg to differ as well as anyone who has had a radiation treatment for cancer.
I could name some other examples, but I won’t. His biggest problem was lack of sufficient mathematical training. What he had was much more than Edison. However, Edison had essentially zero mathematical training. Not having that training blinded him from advances in Physics essentially from say the 1930s on. Tesla was a great engineering experimentalist but that’s NOT everything.
Since you’re probably going to think I’m a Tesla hater, I’m not. One of my doctoral advisers was a past president of the Tesla Society. So, I heard a lot and I mean a lot about Tesla!