Though it is a fact that Hinduism and the Systems of Indian Philosophy are the forerunners of Modern Thought, here I differ in that Our systems are
ahead of the Modern Science as some of the theories they still have are wrong and Hinduism will be proved Right eventually, our people , even those
who are supposed to be educated, will believe these statements.
But they will, if they hear it from a Westerner!
This is precisely what I intend in this post.
I have posted on the views of Quantum and Indian Philosophy, how they concur,How Scientists of the day meet Adi Shankaracharya in describing and
explaining he Quantum Theory.
Two people are considered to be the Founders of Quantum Theory.
They are Bohr and Schrödinger.
“Both Bohr and Schrödinger, the founders of quantum physics, were avid readers of the Vedic texts and
observed that their experiments in quantum physics were consistent with what they had read in the Vedas.”
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Tat Tvam Asi, You Are That ”
ब्रह्मैवेदममृतं पुरस्तात् ब्रह्म पश्चात् ब्रह्म उत्तरतो दक्षिणतश्चोत्तरेण ।
अधश्चोर्ध्वं च प्रसृतं ब्रह्मैवेदं विश्वमिदं वरिष्ठम् ॥ 2.2.11
Niels Bohr got the ball rolling around 1900 by explaining why atoms emit and absorb electromagnetic radiation only at certain frequencies.
Then, in the 1920′s Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961), an Austrian-Irish physicist (pictured below), who won the Nobel prize, came up with his famous wave equation that predicts how the Quantum Mechanical wave function changes with time.
Wave functions are used in Quantum Mechanics to determine how particles move and interact with time.
In the 1920′s Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976) formulated his famous uncertainty principal, which states when a physicist attempts to observe a subatomic particle, the experimental apparatus inevitably alters the subatomic particle’s trajectory.
This is because they are trying to observe something that is of the same scale as the photons they are using to observe it.
To be more specific, to observe something that is subatomic in size one must use a device (apparatus) that projects photons at the particle being observed.
This is because the reception of photons by our retina is what we call vision.
Basically, to observe something, we must bounce photons off it. The problem is that the photons disturb the subatomic particles because they are of the same size.
Thus, there is no way to observe subatomic particles without altering their trajectories.
Bohr, Heisenberg and Schrödinger regularly read Vedic texts. Heisenberg stated,
“Quantum theory will not look ridiculous to people who have read Vedanta.” Vedanta is the conclusion of Vedic thought.
Furthermore, Fritjof Capra, when interviewed by Renee Weber in the book The Holographic Paradigm(page 217–218), stated that Schrödinger, in speaking about Heisenberg, has said:
“I had several discussions with Heisenberg. I lived in England then [circa 1972], and I visited him several times in Munich and showed him the whole manuscript chapter by chapter.
He was very interested and very open, and he told me something that I think is not known publicly because he never published it. He said that he was well aware of these parallels.
While he was working on quantum theory he went to India to lecture and was a guest of Tagore.
He talked a lot with Tagore about Indian philosophy.
Heisenberg told me that these talks had helped him a lot with his work in physics, because they showed him that all these new ideas in quantum physics were in fact not all that crazy.
He realized there was, in fact, a whole culture that subscribed to very similar ideas.
Heisenberg said that this was a great help for him. Niels Bohr had a similar experience when he went to China.”
Schrodinger wrote in his book Meine Weltansicht:
“This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance.
This, as we know, is what the Brahmins [wise men or priests in the Vedic tradition] express in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and so clear:
; tat tvam asi, this is you. Or, again, in such words as “I am in the east and the west, I am above and below, I am this entire world.”
ब्रह्मैवेदममृतं पुरस्तात् ब्रह्म पश्चात् ब्रह्म उत्तरतो दक्षिणतश्चोत्तरेण ।
अधश्चोर्ध्वं च प्रसृतं ब्रह्मैवेदं विश्वमिदं वरिष्ठम् ॥ 2.2.11
This is a reference to the Mundaka Upanishad mantra (above) in which the Vedic understanding of the connectivity of living entities is put forward to help the Bhakta (practitioner of yoga) to understand the difference between the body and the living entity.
How the real nature of the living entity is realized only in union with the source, the supreme being (Brahman/Krishna) through a platform of transcendental divine loving service.
The multiplicity is only apparent. This is the doctrine of the Upanishads. And not of the Upanishads only. The mystical experience of the union with God regularly leads to this view, unless strong prejudices stand in the West.” (Erwin Schrödinger, What is Life?, p. 129, Cambridge University Press)
“There is no kind of framework within which we can find consciousness in the plural; this is simply something we construct because of the temporal plurality of individuals, but it is a false construction… The only solution to this conflict insofar as any is available to us at all lies in the ancient wisdom of the Upanishad.” (Mein Leben, Meine Weltansicht [My Life, My World View] (1961), Chapter 4).
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