We had never seen a Tesla automobile, but its sleek design, understated elegance and electric motor caught our attention.

Taking the Tesla for a test drive was a memorable experience. The auto handles like a dream. The acceleration is powerful and smooth. The interior is luxurious yet practical, and the electronics are state-of-the-art.

Then we checked our budget and reality set in. We did not make the purchase (not yet!)

My insatiable curiosity led me to research our discovery in detail.

Tesla Motors was founded by Elon Reeve Musk, its product architect. Elon is a 44-years-young South African-born Canadian-American engineer, inventor, investor, and business magnet. He is the CEO of SpaceX (reusable space rockets) and co-founder of Zip2, PayPal and chairman of SolarCity. He envisions a high-speed transportation known as Hyperloop and has proposed a supersonic jet aircraft with electric fan propulsion. He believes humans will land on the planet Mars and eventually establish a human colony to advance interstellar research.

Musk is a visionary driven primarily by his imagination. But why the name Tesla?

Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist and futurist born in 1856. He is often referred to as “the man who invented the 20th century” and is best known for his design of the modern alternating current electrical supply system. Following the blinding flash of light in an Hungarian sunset, he envisioned the workings of a motor that uses a rotating magnetic field to produce electric currents that alternate directions many times per second. It was the dawn of the alternating current motor, which incidentally powers every home on our planet. The distribution of electricity was no longer limited in distance. It was a momentous breakthrough beyond the Edison patented direct current generators with a limit of a two-mile radius.

Not long after Tesla’s stroke of imagination and genius, it became possible to flash sound and images through the air to any place desired. It was the beginning of transistors, the radio, television, telephone, radar, medical imaging, and many more things we are using in the present.

My lack of scientific academic education limits my ability to fully explain these phenomena, so I base my limited understanding more on curiosity and observation.

Remarkably Elon Musk honored Nikola Tesla, a fellow engineer, visionary and genius. Both men recognized and kept on learning from the immense power of the universe. As Tesla said, “When you want to learn about the universe, think in terms of vibration, frequency, energy.”

The Universal Law of Vibration states that everything in the universe, including our galaxy, our planet, trees, plants, people, our thoughts and feelings, vibrate in one frequency or another creating an ocean of energy. As a self-proclaimed space cadet, I am inspired by that statement and the research into the life of these two geniuses. Their gifts inspire me to continue the journey, so I will continue to share thoughts on vital vibration in future issues of Desert Health^®.

George can be reached at [email protected].