Trick or Truth: the Mysterious Connection Between Physics and Mathematics by Sujatha Jagannathan

Sujatha,

I appreciate your interest in science and the Upanishads.

So I think, you will be delighted to read the following:

1. Nature of the Ultimate Reality, The Physical World and The Individual Self according to the Upanishad,: URL:

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnx0aGV1bHRpbWF0ZXJlYWxpdHlzaXRlfGd4OjY3MmM5YmNjODFiZDY3YzE

2. On the Emergence of the Physical World from The Ultimate Reality, URL:

fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/2001

3. On The Emergence of 'Life' from "matter", URL:

philpapers.org/rec/TANOTE

4. On the Nature of Consciousness, Space and The Cosmic Consciousness, URL:

scigod.com/index.php/sgj/article/viewFile/290/335

The following stanza describes the physical world, just in two lines:

Vishvam Bichi-Vilasa Ayam, Cit-Sudha-Abdhe Udeti Yaha;

Vileeyate Cha Tatra-eva, Madhye Katham Tad-Maya. ( From Yoga Vashishtha )

Meaning:

This universe is a play of waves, arisen in nectar-ocean of the Ultimate Reality, (which Chit, meaning Consciousness, Sudha meaning: immortal and Abdhi meaning Ocean of infinite dimensions). It (The Universe) also subsides in that ocean alone. So in its present state too, it is tad maya, immersed in the Ultimate Reality.

Some Western Scientists too, have reached the similar conclusion. For example:

Halliday and Rasnik's text-book Physics's title-page has a photograph of Double-slit-interference of waves. As if, they have expressed whole physics using this photograph.

With Best Wishes,

Hasmukh K. Tank

As noted before: If you understand the double-slit experiment, you do understand the whole of physics. That is the subject of my current study.

Dear Sujatha,

Can you find out what Vedanta has to say about whether a length is infinitely divisible into positions or whether there is a limit to the available positions on a given length?

Regards,

Akinbo

Thank you for reading my essay.

I read with interest your essay; and I think that the curiosity (and studies) in the philosophy, and mysticism, is not waste of time.

If there are millennia of studies, exchange of idea, on the fundamental ideas of the world (and of the life), some results must have been obtained.

Dear Miss. Sujatha Jagannathan,

I read with great interest your essay. Yes, indeed, to find a common foundation of Mathematics and Physics is necessary synthesis of all the accumulated knowledge, including traditional. India center rich culture and ancient knowledge that nourish many peoples of the world. I recall here the poems of Rabindranath Tagore:

I ask my destiny - what power is this That cruelly drives me onward without rest?

My destiny says, "Look round!"

I turn back and see It is I myself that is ever pushing me from behind.

There is no doubt that the picture of the world of physicists and mathematicians should be the same rich senses of life as a picture of the world poets ..

Kind regards,

Vladimir

I am not that educated in some of these scriptural texts. I have a sense that the Atman = Brahma means that the distinction between the individual and the wholeness is not that sharp. There is a sort of observer-participator aspect to quantum physics that has this qualitative meaning.

LC

The topic was supposed to be on the connection between mathematics and physics. Instead, you appear to have uses the competition as an excuse for you to advertise how Indian philosophy has influenced the thinking of some Western physicists.

Sujatha,

Thanks for introducing me to Vedanta beliefs. Concepts born several thousands years ago, such as these, seem to have inspired ideas in our modern world. The cyclic model proposes that the big bang is a collision between branes that occurs at regular intervals. From my memory, its every trillion years or so. It perhaps inspires the fractal, a mathematical set that exhibits a repeating pattern that displays at every scale.

It is an informative essay and well written.

Jim

Dear Miss.,

My command of English is perhaps not good enough as to always understand you. That's why I looked into your essay after you made a comment on mine that I felt rather cryptic.

Did you read the essay by Akinbo Ojo? While his mother tongue is also not English - he is a physician in Nigeria - we do understand each other well enough as to agree on that we disagree, I am sure, you didn't understand his question.

Eckard Blumschein