Tesla rocks, so does the 80s hair band versionThe text used for the narration of “Passing Through” is part of aspeech Serbian scientist and inventor Nicola Tesla delivered in 1893 atthe Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. Though today less known thanfigures like Edison and Einstein, Tesla was more or less the father ofmuch of our modern technology, since he among other things developed thefoundations of the European electrical system based on alternatingcurrents and the principles of wireless radio communication.At the time he was deeply influenced by the Austrian physicist andphilosopher Ernst Mach, believing that the world should be conceived as awhole where everything is interconnected influencing each other. Andthat energy is a force that runs through everything be it inorganicmatter, organisms or human consciousness. According to this line ofthought every single action has universal consequences, not unlike whatthe father of modern chaos theory Edward Lorenz in the 1960’s termed‘the butterfly effect’.Narration text:"Like a wave in the physical world, in the infinite ocean of themedium which pervades all, so in the world of organisms, in life, animpulse started proceeds onward, at times, may be, with the speed oflight, at times, again, so slowly that for ages and ages it seems tostay, passing through processes of a complexity inconceivable to men,but in all its forms, in all its stages, its energy ever and everintegrally present.A single ray of light from a distant star falling upon the eye of atyrant in bygone times may have altered the course of his life, may havechanged the destiny of nations, may have transformed the surface of theglobe, so intricate, so inconceivably complex are the processes inNature. In no way can we get such an overwhelming idea of the grandeurof Nature than when we consider, that in accordance with the law of theconservation of energy, throughout the Infinite, the forces are in aperfect balance, and hence the energy of a single thought may determinethe motion of a universe.”Nikola Tesla "The Electrical Review, 1893"