Sit Down, Nikola

{Denise gracefully hosts Six Sentence Stories, where writers unleash their magic under one simple rule: in no more or no less than 6 sentences.
This week’s prompt word is : ENERGY }

 

“I learned very early the difference of knowing the name of something & knowing something.”
Richard Feynman

 

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A student at the class of a school at the Hapsburg Empire was reluctantly raising his hand as the physics teacher was finishing his introduction into what we today refer as the law of conservation of energy: “Life force cannot be created or destroyed; it can only be transformed from one form to another.”

“But sir, what is that life force?” he managed to say before the answer came faster than a discharge from a magnifying transmitter; ” Sit down, Nikola!”

Years later, around 1880, the same student found himself again in the middle of a dispute with his professor at the university of Graz; “But sir, surely you cannot say that the capacity to perform work is a definition of energy; it is merely a mathematical description of its various manifestations and equivalencies to predict potential effects…energy’s composition and origin are nowhere to be found.”

The professor’s answer with his carotid arteries extruding like undersea current cables, filled the amphitheater: “Sit down, Nikola!”

Nikola Tesla made his suitcase and in 1884 arrived  in New York with nothing but his inquisitive spirit and four cents in his wallet.

It was December of 1899 when Nikola sat down once again, this time at his laboratory at Colorado Springs, as he has just lit 200 lamps without wires from a distance of 40 km; a bitter smile was on his face as he recalled all these times he was ordered with authoritative force… Don’t worry professor, Nikola sat down…

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“If you want to find the secrets of the universe,
think in terms of energy, frequency & vibration.”
Nikola Tesla

 

 

BY THE COMPANY OF WARRIORS I KEEP

Spira / Nick © October 2022

 

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