4-Dimensional Space-Time and Holographic Universe
Part-4: How does the Universe run?
Albert Einstein said:
"There are two different conceptions about the nature of the universe:
[1]: The world as a Unity dependent on Humanity, and
[2]: The world as a Reality dependent of the human factor"
The search for the beginning of the universe has become a passion with many physicists today. They feel that if once the picture of the very first instant of the Big Bang could be reconstructed, then the whole problem of 'super-unification' would be complete, because the very picture of the first moment would offer a clear picture of how from one single force all other forces were created. The search for blackholes (despite of a Scientist who claims she has mathematical proof black holes cannot exist) is helping the physicists of form a picture of the big bang.
'One of the main obstacles to the acceptance of the Big Bang theory was the idea that the universe is eternal, because protons the hardest constituent of our universe, was supposed to be eternal and undecaying. But this stumbling block is gone today making the path to grand unification open for the physicists. About 1960's, Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov independently predicted that protons too decay. Today physicists working in the deep recesses of the Kolar Gold mines in India, in the tunnerl beneath the Mont Blanc, and under the salt mines on the shores of Lake Erie in Cleveland, U.S.A. have finally confirmed that protons indeed decay. Their life according to the latest calculation is 10^32 years - a thousand billion billion times the present age of the universe.'(Reference: ibid pg-46 ).
Roger Penrose of Oxford and Stephen Hawking of Cambridge have already opened wider horizons of the first moment of cosmic creation to physicists today. What is the final vision of the world emerging out of today's physics? In very many ways the emerging picture compares more increasingly with the Indian concepts of Kalpa, or cycles of creation and the Vedantic theories, the Conscious -Knowledge -Bliss Absolute, as the eternal substratum and source of all creation. But it has hardly any affinity to the concepts of creation in the Judlo-Christian tradition.
The uncertainty principle of Heisenberg in 1927 totally denied the existence of a purely deterministic and causal universe running mechanically like a machine. Uncertainty or indeterminacy was found to be the very foundation of quantum physics, or the physics of sub-atomic particles. The Bell's theory which was considered as a profound discovery in science, was verified successfully by David Bohm in London and by Clauser and Freedmon in California, have confirmed that underlying far deeper the quantum chaos there lies a unity , a fundamental interconnectedness in the whole universe. As from our own existence and our self perception, we can say that all the small laws are part of some bigger law. So what we are trying to find out is whether there is some bigger law (generally we may call it as Unified field theory) from which all other laws can be derived or we may say the bigger one could explain the laws regarding the four forces of nature, those who guide the universe and applied laws.
The entire world of modern physics is moving towards a knowledge of final unity in the universe. The Vedanta, the philosophical and the metaphysical portion of the Vedas, affirmed this unity as the very basis of all existence and the ultimate goal of all knowledge. And for the first time, this unifying message technology, in the very language of today's physics, by the Hindu monk Swami Vivekananda as early as 1890's. Today's discoveries in physics are in many ways approaching the very appearance on the Western scene in September 1893, Vivekananda highlighted the future unification of Western science and India's Vedanta philosophy. to the august assembly of Westerners gathered at the Parliament of Religions of Chicago held in 1893,
Vivekananda declared:
"Science is nothing but the finding of unity. As soon as Science would reach perfect unity, it would stop from further progress because it would reach the goal. Thus Chemistry could not progress further when it would discover one element out of which able to fulfill its services in discovering one energy of which all the others ate but manifestations. And the science of religion would become perfect when it would discover Him, who is the one life in a universe of death, Him who is the constant basis of an ever-changing world, one who is the only soul of which all souls ate but delusive manifestations. Thus is it through multiplicity and duality, that the ultimate unity is reached. Religion can go no further. This is the goal of all Science." -(Reference: Complete works of Swami Vivekananda)
The confluence of modern physics and idea of Vivekananda Vedanta is an important field of study in modern time to which an increasing number of thinkers are slowly turning their attention.
-References: Modern Physics and Vedanta-Swami Jitatmananda(Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan)
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