Showing posts with label Ancient India. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ancient India. Show all posts

Sunday, February 15, 2015

4-Dimensional Space-Time and Holographic Universe Part-4: How does the Universe run?

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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Thursday, November 20, 2014

4-Dimensional Space-Time and Holographic Universe Part-3: The quantum Mechanics and The Creation



4-Dimensional Space-Time and Holographic Universe

Part-3: The quantum Mechanics and The Creation


       As per last part the we came to conclusion that about the nature of the matter in our universe, here it comes the profound about the existence of matter itself, as we know the matter, moreover the behavior and nature of atomic and sub atomic concepts are, evidently explained by quantum mechanics, and application of quantum mechanics. Now let us dwell into the level of matter perhaps take a journey into the deeper level of atoms, nevertheless, into the world of manifestation.
       Here, I’ll, the deeper level of atomics, call it as the manifestation is, because as told earlier the reality that we feel, that we live in is resultant of the unnumbered particles of atoms. Electrons, the revolutionary particle, was, found by J.J.Thomson, leads the race of importance among over 200 atomic and subatomic particles (we are in search of the basic building block of the matter, precisely, the atomic particle and in result today we are with the result sheet comprising over 200 sub-atomic particles, and the numbers yet to count). Again the electron is only the particle which is a mysterious particle ever known to human beings. As from its duality nature. Yes the double slit experiment did actually got the attention of all the Physicists throughout the world at beginning of early 1900’s. perhaps it (double slit experiment)is the experiment holds the credit of highest number of trials  done by most of the physicists/scientists in many part of the world.

       In simple and in brief, the experiment goes like this, when you fire an Electron through the obstacle with the single slit on it, to pass the electron, then on to the photo-detecting screen behind, we see the strip like pattern on the detecting screen. And when the same is repeated, along just a single change made is, a single slit is replaced with the double slits parallel to one another. The result expected is obvious, the two strips parallel to one another. But in reality it isn’t eventually. Instead we can see the fringe like pattern which runs middle-outside, i.e. the consecutive bright and dark fringes with highest intensity for middle bright and with decreasing in intensity as the bright and dark fringes runs along outside (both side) from mid one. So here comes like trivia about electron, so to know its nature, let us put a particle detector near to the slits where electron get pass through, then, again, evolved the mysterious paradigm result, that made physicist stun about the nature of electron. The result was a two strips parallel to one another without single sign about fringes. So, what’s going on?
By the time amazed with the quite mysterious result in hand, physicists, mainly to mention, Heisenberg and others are held with opinion that the pattern were labeled with the probabilistic wave nature of electron, eventually called as probabilistic wave. i.e. the electron exhibit the dual nature, mean to say, the electron exists, in, sometimes in the nature of the particle and in sometimes as a wave. Together all the consequence it is summed up as WAVITICLE (WAVe-partICLE) nature.

       If electron/light is probabilistic wave in nature, and, according to the standard model proposed by Neil Bhor, the atom itself is most of it is with empty space between the nucleus and to the electron orbits around the nucleus. In fact our all realistic experience are nothing than, perhaps the virtual. We live in a world which is almost Empty, that means Nothing. Our universe is made up of nothing, our reality, our surrounding and even we do.
       Years, precisely centuries before the evolution of mankind and their civilization, notable civilized people from the bank of Sindhu river (once flown about eastern and south-eastern part of India), civilization was called Indus. Eventually the people of India (named after Indus valley/civilization) were knew, from their greatest, oldest of all religion and the mankind ever known sacred scriptures, mainly to mention, Vedas, Upanishadas and Bhagavatam. They states the above discussed paradigm of virtual reality as Maya.

Bhagavatam states that the matter exists in two conditions:
    
              1.     Manifest condition and

              2.     Unmanifest condition
   
    When matter is transformed to a manifest condition the universe is created and when the universe is annihilated matter is transformed into its unmanifest condition.

       According the second law of thermodynamics, the entropy of an isolated system always increases. The entropy is a physical quantity, which measures the degree of disorder of a system. It is a common experience that entropy of a system must always increase if a system is left alone. One can create our of disorder, but that requires expenditure of effort or energy and so decrease the amount of energy available. Thus for matter to be ordered requires a conscious being! Without a conscious being behind matter, matters only tendency of the Universe to expand comes from the conscious being who activates matter by injecting consciousness into it!

To be continued...

Friday, August 22, 2014

4-Dimensional Space-Time and Holographic Universe.

Part-2: The Uncertainty Principle

      
    On the basis of above discussed paradigms we conclude as considering the basic foundation of quantum theory, we may, sometimes, get into scientific fictional cross over with the beliefs that mankind have ever adopted to himself, since before the introduction of the first telegraph, the first radio, the first cathode ray tube, perhaps the first electrical line or more precisely the evolution of the electricity itself. Moreover we may phrase it as Science.

            The sophistication in life by the science that gave us revolution in the civilization from bicycle to invention like Lasers, Radars, and Satellites up to the GPS systems, Transistors and the touch sensed (electronics) gadgets, are all the comprehensive results of Science. Well, of course, Physics is at the foundation of all the technology. As discussed in previous blog the four forces of nature govern our universe and yes, even our technology World Wide Web (WWW), Integrated circuit (IC’s) and etc. are outcomes of mathematical equations of quantum theory/mechanics, or result of thought experiment called the Schrodinger’s Cat proposed by the celebrated physicist Ervin Schrodinger. When we open up with quantum theory, it is, mandatorily know about the particles, indeed after atomic and sub-atomic particles, like electrons, study of its nature and their behavior, which is called as Electronics, has revolutionized the world with technology.

            The flow of electrons (current) is as the result of particle application obliged in the technological era that we live in. In fact the sophisticated life that we enjoy today might have not been manifested by then. Now a days into the deep down of the sub-atomic world, physicists have come to conjecturing the existence of some 200 sub particles until today, and obviously the number is in increase in counts. Particle physicists have divided all sub-atomic particles in three categories based on their masses from lightest to the heaviest, they are as follows:

·        Leptons or light-weight particles

·        Mesons or medium-weight particles, and

·        Baryons or heavy-weight particles

 Let us dig deep into the ‘Particle Physics’ aspect as we are already on to the mark to get start to travel into the very specific physics, to understand the working of the universe and as discussed earlier technologies. All we feel, touch, see and moreover, we, the human beings (Living things) itself are/is all manifestation resulted from the tiny particle itself. For sure, human being is made up of trillions of trillions of trillions of atomic and sub atomic particles. In fact all the physical laws, those governing our nature governs the human physiological life too. We can sense the touch, can feel heat and cold scientifically we allow electric charge (current) to flow through our bodies, accordingly even the beings are also called conductors.

But the quest about the ultimate building block that can explain all the happenings in this universe is yet unanswered. Perhaps what is Mass or Energy? What is the mass composed of? What is the smallest particle composed of?

Well the new branch of physics, which is emerged very recently, particle physics itself has no answer and the quantum mechanics/uncertainty do have either. The most celebrated physicist Heisenberg who himself formulated the ‘The uncertainty Principle’, quoted in The Dancing Wu Li Masters. Pg.216 as “In the light of the quantum theory, elementary particles are no longer real in the sense as objects of daily life, trees or stones”.

Heisenberg showed that subatomic entities like the electrons can never be measured or determined in ‘conventional way’ and hence there is and must always be a measure of ‘uncertainty’ or the ‘indeterminacy’ in our knowledge of the electrons, and it is called as ‘Uncertainty Principle’. It summaries and try to determine precisely the velocity and the position of the electron. But it isn’t true i.e. if we try to know the position of the electron, then we will end up with knowing almost nothing about its velocity, and vice versa. And hence this Principle also called as of ‘Principle of Indeterminacy’. The theory mainly insist us to make us to have a must knowledge to know the electron we must know the Position (where it is) and what will be its velocity. The ridiculous part of quantum cross over, comes in to picture, if one is known fully the other is bound to remain unknown. As from the thought experiment of the Heisenberg we can know that ‘something we have to use a light whose wavelength is smaller than the piece of interest. So he (Heisenberg) thought to use the gamma ray to test the theory, as the gamma rays will have the shortest wavelength. Moreover the gamma rays got not only the short wavelength, got much more energy than ordinary light too. So whenever gamma ray is focused on fast moving electron in its orbits, it illuminates the electron with on doubt, but simultaneously it violently knocks out the electron from its orbit and change in direction and momentum occurs in an uncontrollable and unpredictable way. Heisenberg mathematically calculated this quest in an equation:        


Where Q= uncertainty about Velocity of the electron

            P= uncertainty about position of the electron

            h= Planks constant (6.63*10-27 erg. Sec)

This means we could get both the velocity and the position of the electron with perfect precision. But since the ‘h’, the planks constant is fixed quantity, either of the uncertainty must remain.

And hence there is sense that an electron being not tightened up to stay in particular location or to follow just one path. It may be found anywhere in the universe, as It can be better studied with the Quantum Entanglement (will be discussed in upcoming blog).

Thursday, August 15, 2013

ವಿಮಾನ ಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ- Ancient Indian-Aeronautics

Continued...

ವಿಮಾನ ಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ- Ancient Indian-Aeronautics


The First Fleet - Shivkar Bapuji Talpade; Was an Indian the first man to fly ?

           The 18th and 19th centuries were the period of inventions and two attempts got recorded into the annals of aviation history. One was Alberto Santos-Dumont of Brazil, who flew the first dirigible on a controlled flight around the Eiffel Tower in Paris on October 19, 1901, and the other the Wright Brothers os USA who flew the world's first aeroplane on December 17, 1903. They are recorded as the pioneers of manned, controlled flight.
          But the first, but unsuccessful, flight of an aeroplane built by an Indian Shivkar Bapuji Talpade, (ಶಿವ್ಕರ ಬಾಪೂಜಿ ತಲ್ಪಡೆ) is yet to be recognized. 
ಶಿವ್ಕರ ಬಾಪೂಜಿ ತಲ್ಪಡೆ-Shivkar Bapuji Talpade
         
         
Shivkar Bapuji Talpade, the Maharashtrian (Indian) Pathare prabhu community member who purportedly flew an unmanned airplane, named Marutsakhā, in the year 1895 

Born:           1864, Mumbai
Died:           1916
 
Wikipedia Page:    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shivkar_Bapuji_Talpade
 
Age at Death:         52 years old
 
Rare Terms:          "talpade"
          Orville Wright (Wright Bro's) demonstrated on December 17th 1903 that it was possible for a manned heavier than air machine to fly. But, in 1895, eight years earlier, the Sanskrit scholar Shivkar Bapuji Talpade had designed a basic aircraft called Marutsakthi (meaning Power of Air) based on Vedic technology and had it take off unmanned before a large audience in the Chowpathy beach of Bombay. The importance of the Wright brothers lies in the fact, that it was a manned flight for a distance of 120 feet and Orville Wright became the first man to fly. But Talpade’s unmanned aircraft flew to a height of 1500 feet before crashing down and the historian Evan Koshtka, has described Talpade as the ‘first creator of an aircraft’.
          As the world observes the one hundredth anniversary of the first manned flight, it is interesting to consider the saga of India’s 19th century first aircraft inventor for his design was entirely based on the rich treasury of India’s Vedas. Shivkar Bapuji Talpade was born in 1864 in the locality of Chirabazar at Dukkarwadi in Bombay.
He was a scholar of Sanskrit and from his young age was attracted by the Vaimanika Sastra (Aeronautical Science) expounded by the great Indian sage Maharishi Bhardwaja. One western scholar of Indology Stephen-Knapp has put in simple words or rather has tried to explain what Talpade did and succeeded!
        According to Knapp, the Vaimanika Shastra describes in detail, the construction of what is called, the mercury vortex engine the forerunner of the ion engines being made today by NASA. Knapp adds that additional information on the mercury engines can be found in the ancient Vedic text called Samaranga Sutradhara. This text also devotes 230 verses, to the use of these machines in peace and war. The Indologist William Clarendon, who has written down a detailed description of the mercury vortex engine in his translation of Samaranga Sutradhara quotes thus ‘Inside the circular air frame, place the mercury-engine with its solar mercury boiler at the aircraft center. By means of the power latent in the heated mercury which sets the driving whirlwind in motion a man sitting inside may travel a great distance in a most marvellous manner. Four strong mercury containers must be built into the interior structure. When these have been heated by fire through solar or other sources the vimana (aircraft) develops thunder-power through the mercury.
        NASA (National Aeronau-tical and Space Administra-tion) world’s richest/ most powerful scientific organisation is trying to create an ion engine that is a device that uses a stream of high velocity electrified particles instead of a blast of hot gases like in present day modern jet engines. Surprisingly according to the bi-monthly Ancient Skies published in USA, the aircraft engines being developed for future use by NASA by some strange coincidence also uses mercury bombardment units powered by Solar cells! Interestingly, the impulse is generated in seven stages. The mercury propellant is first vapourised fed into the thruster discharge chamber ionised converted into plasma by a combination with electrons broke down electrically and then accelerated through small openings in a screen to pass out of the engine at velocities between 1200 to 3000 kilometres per minute! But so far NASA has been able to produce an experimental basis only a one pound of thrust by its scientists a power derivation virtually useless. But 108 years ago Talpade was able to use his knowledge of Vaimanika Shastra to produce sufficient thrust to lift his aircraft 1500 feet into the air!
          According to Indian scholar Acharya, ‘Vaimanika Shastra deals about aeronautics including the design of aircraft the way they can be used for transportation and other applications in detail. The knowledge of aeronautics is described in Sanskrit in 100 sections, eight chapters, 500 principles and 3000 slokas including 32 techniques to fly an aircraft. In fact, depending on the classifications of eras or Yugas in modern Kaliyuga aircraft used are called Krithakavimana flown by the power of engines by absorbing solar energies!’ It is feared that only portions of Bharadwaja’s masterpiece Vaimanika Shas-tra survive today.
          The question that comes to one’s mind is, what happened to this wonderful encyclopaedia of aeronautical knowledge accumulated by the Indian savants of yore, and why was it not used? But in those days, such knowledge was the preserve of sages, who would not allow it to be misused, just like the knowledge of atomic bombs is being used by terrorists today!
          According to scholar Ratnakar Mahajan who wrote a brochure on Talpade. ‘Being a Sanskrit scholar interested in aeronautics, Talpade studied and consulted a number of Vedic treatises like Brihad Vaimanika Shastra of Maharishi Bharadwaja Vimanachandrika of Acharya Narayan Muni Viman yantra of Maharish Shownik Yantra Kalp by Maharishi Garg Muni Viman Bindu of Acharya Vachaspati and Vimana Gyanarka Prakashika of Maharishi Dhundiraj’. This gave him confidence that he can build an aircraft with mercury engines. One essential factor in the creation of these Vedic aircraft was the timing of the Suns Rays or Solar energy (as being now utilised by NASA) when they were most effective to activate the mercury ions of the engine. Happily for Talpade Maharaja Sayaji Rao Gaekwad of Baroda a great supporter of the Sciences in India, was willing to help him and Talpade went ahead with his aircraft construction with mercury engines. One day in 1895 (unfortunately the actual date is not mentioned in the Kesari newspaper of Pune which covered the event) before an curious scholarly audience headed by the famous Indian judge/ nationalist/ Mahadeva Govin-da Ranade and H H Sayaji Rao Gaekwad Talpade had the good fortune to see his un manned aircraft named as ‘Marutsakthi’ take off, fly to a height of 1500 feet and then fall down to earth.
         But this success of an Indian scientist was not liked by the Imperial rulers. Warned by the British Government the Maharaja of Baroda stopped helping Talpade. It is said that the remains of the Marutsakthi were sold to ‘foreign parties’ by the relatives of Talpade in order to salvage whatever they can out of their loans to him. Talpade’s wife died at this critical juncture and he was not in a mental frame to continue with his researches.
        But his efforts to make known the greatness of Vedic Shastras was recognised by Indian scholars, who gave him the title of Vidya Prakash Pra-deep. Talpade passed away in 1916 un-honoured, in his own country.As the world rightly honours the Wright Brothers for their achievements, we should think of Talpade, who utilised the ancient knowledge of Sanskrit texts, to fly an aircraft, eight years before his foreign counterparts.

Sunday, August 4, 2013

ವಿಮಾನ ಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ- Ancient Indian AERONAUTICS

VIMANA SHASTRA

ವಿಮಾನ ಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ

  Science of Ancient Indian-Aeronautics

ಫುಶಪಕ್ ವಿಮಾನ

Aircraft of Ancient India.

                 Throughout history there have been many common myths and legends of flying machines or devices- the familiar flying carpets of ancient Arabia (Yes of cousre; as you been through the Arabian Nights) Ezeki and Solomon flying from place to place by means of "Magical Chariots", Popularly known as Vimans, (ವಿಮಾನ ) of  Ancient India (Anciently called as Bharata-ಭಾರತ ).
               Its better to Start our discussion with the Ancient Texts to Understand the concept of Vimans . Among the more famous ancient texts that mention aerial cars (Vimans) are the Ramayana and Mahabharata. Followed by other lesser known texts including the Samarangana Sutradhara, the Yuktikalpataru of Bhoja Raja, from India, who lived in 12th century A.D. includes the technology involved in Ship-Building. The Mayamatam attributed to the architect called Maya, celebrated in the Mahabharata, the Rig Veda, the Yajurveda and the Atahavaveda.
ರಾಮಾಯಣ
               According to the Indian Historian Ramachandra, who wrote the still classic text on ancient Indian warfare, other texts which mention aerial vehicles and travels are Satapathya Brahmanas; the Rig veda Samhita; the Harivamsa; the Makandeya Purana; the Vishnu Purana; the Vikramaurvasiya; the Uttara-Ramacarita; the Harsacarita; the text from Tamil language Jivaka-Cintamani; and the discussion on aerial warfare and Vimanas, with some passages in Sanskrit can also be found from our (Indian) ancestors texts.
               In the Manusa, the most elaborated details for building aerial machines are set down. The Samarangana Sutradhara says that they were made of light material, with a strong, wll-shaped body. Iron, copper, mercury (used for gyroscopic purpose) and lead were used in their construction. They could fly to great distances and were propelled by air by motors.





     















         




             The Ramayana describes a vimana as a double-deck, circular (cylindrical) aircraft with portholes and a come. It flew with the "speed of wind" and gave forth a "melodious sound" (a humming noise?). The ancient Indians themselves wrote entire flight manuals on the control of various types of Vimanas, of which there were basically four: the Shakuna Vimana (ಶಕುನ ವಿಮಾನ), the Sundara Vimana (ಸುಂದರ ವಿಮಾನ), the Rukma Vimana (ರುಕ್ಮ ವಿಮಾನ) and the Tripura Vimana (ತ್ರಿಪುರ ವಿಮಾನ).
               At the world Space Conference on October 11,1988 in Banglore, India, as reported in the local newspaper called The Hindu, an Italian by the name of Dr. Roberto Pinotti addressed the delegates and spoke on ancient Indian Vimanas. After briefly telling them what Vimana was powered by motive power generated by solar rays and had an elongated form similar to a modern blimp.

               He went on to say that the "Ancient Aryans knew the use of the element 'fire' as could be seen from their 'Astra' weapons that included Soposamhara (ಸೋಪೋಸಂಹಾರ ), a flame belching missile, Prasvapna (ಪರಸ್ವಪ್ನ ), which caused sleep and four kinds of Agni Astras that traveled in sheets of flame and produced thunder."
               The Samara Sutradhara (ಸಮರ ಸೂತ್ರಧಾರ) is a scientific treaty dealing with every possible angle of air travel in a Vimana, dealing with construction, take-off, cruising for thousands of miles, normal and forced landings, and even possible collisions with birds.
               Says the Vaimanika Sastra about itself: "In this book are described in 8 pregnant and captivating chapters, the arts of manufacturing various types of Aeroplanes of smooth and comfortable travel in the sky, as a unifying force for trhe Universe, contributive to the well-Being of mankind. " That which can go by its own force, like a bird, on Earth, of Water, or in Air, is called 'Vimana'.
               That which can travel in the sky, from place to place, land to land, or globe to globe, is called 'Vimana' by scientists in Aeronautics.

                                                                                                                                    To be contineed...

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