Ran across this video on the It’s Okay To Be Smart blog combining text from a speech by Nicola Tesla from 1893 with imagery and animation from the now. The video is by Kristian Ulrich Larsen and Olafur Haraldsson and was filmed in the astonishingly beautiful island of Iceland.

Passing Through from Olafur Haraldsson on Vimeo.

Narration text

“Like a wave in the physical world, in the infinite ocean of the medium which pervades all, so in the world of organisms, in life, an impulse started proceeds onward, at times, may be, with the speed of light, at times, again, so slowly that for ages and ages it seems to stay, passing through processes of a complexity inconceivable to men, but in all its forms, in all its stages, its energy ever and ever integrally present.

A single ray of light from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have altered the course of his life, may have changed the destiny of nations, may have transformed the surface of the globe, so intricate, so inconceivably complex are the processes in Nature. In no way can we get such an overwhelming idea of the grandeur of Nature than when we consider, that in accordance with the law of the conservation of energy, throughout the Infinite, the forces are in a perfect balance, and hence the energy of a single thought may determine the motion of a universe.”

Nikola Tesla “The Electrical Review, 1893”

About Nicola Tesla

Easily confused with the ’80’s band of the same name, Nicola Tesla was an inventor, engineer, electrical engineer, physicist and futurist who developed the basic alternating current electrical system that is in use in most of the world.

His many revolutionary developments in the field of electromagnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were based on the theories of electromagnetic technology discovered by Michael FaradayTesla’s patents and theoretical work also formed the basis of wireless communication and the radio. [Wikipedia]

There is also some interesting info about electricity in this video by Tesla (the band).

-Mike

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