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Laws Of Motion Rig Veda Full Moon Image Verses

Motion of planets around the sun is not circular, even though sun is the central force causing planets to move (Refer previous mantra 10.149.1)

2. The motion of planets is such that Velocity of planets is in inverse relation with the distance between planet and sun.

It can be easily shown with the help of Newton’s Second Law that, for a planet revolving around sun in an elliptical orbit, having distance ‘r’ with sun and angle ‘θ’ made between length ‘r’ and any fixed axis, at any instant, following holds true

From the above, it can be easily shown that derivative of the product of square of distance between sun and planet and rate of change of angle θ, with respect to time, is zero. And thus following relation is obtained (with h as a constant)

Laws Of Motion Gravity Trigonometry Hindu Texts

As I was lecturing a senior scientist from a reputed Institution was so upset that when I was proving the inadequacy of Science especially Newton, in explaining many physical events both atomic and in Astrophysics,he interrupted me that None should speak ill of Newton.

My reply from the podium was that when I am talking Vedas and about Shankaracharya, Newton does not come any where near and asked the gentleman to wait till I complete the lecture.

I continued with the arguments in the lecture.

I shall deal with the details of the lecture in a separate post.

It is a different matter that the gentlemen met my friend and informed he shall read Sanskrit and Shankara before talking about these issues.

Now let us see in this post what our Vedas and ancient texts say on Laws of Motion,Gravity?