Is it true that Hinduism is the most pro-scientific religion? Just a few examples: The three fathers of Quantum Physics (Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrodinger and Werner Heisenberg) were extremely impressed with the philosophy of the Upanishads that Heisenberg once commented that After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense. Schrodinger commented The unity and continuity of Vedanta are reflected in the unity and continuity of wave mechanics. In 1925, the world view of physics was a model of a great machine composed of separable interacting material particles. During the next few years, Schrodinger and Heisenberg and their followers created a universe based on super imposed inseparable waves of probability amplitudes. This new view would be entirely consistent with the Vedantic concept of All in One. Carl Sagan said: The Hindu religion is the only one of the worlds great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths. It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond, to those of modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles run from our ordinary day and night to a day and night of Brahma, 8.64 billion years long. Longer than the age of the Earth or the Sun and about half the time since the Big Bang. And there are much longer time scales still. Also A millennium before Europeans were willing to divest themselves of the Biblical idea that the world was a few thousand years old, the Mayans were thinking of millions and the Hindus billions. J.R. Oppenheimer: The general notions about human understanding… which are illustrated by discoveries in atomic physics are not in the nature of things wholly unfamiliar, wholly unheard of or new. Even in our own culture they have a history, and in Buddhist and Hindu thought a more considerable and central place. What we shall find [in modern physics] is an exemplification, an encouragement, and a refinement of old wisdom. The Nasadiya Sukta, which is the Hymn of Creation in the Rig Veda (10:129) mentions the universe beginning from a point or Bindu (infinitesimal point), through the power of heat. This can be seen as it being corresponding to The Big Bang Theory.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 09:55:41 +0000
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