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

    Tat tvam asi, ( Sanskrit: "thou art that") in Hinduism, the famous expression of the relationship between the individual and the Absolute. The statement is frequently repeated in the sixth chapter of the Chandogya Upanishad (c. 600 bce) as the teacher Uddalaka Aruni instructs his son in the nature of brahman, the supreme reality. The identity expressed in this judgment was variously interpreted by the different darshans (schools) of the orthodox philosophy of Vedanta. The phrase was given its most literal interpretation by the 8th-9th-century thinker Shankara of the Advaita (Nondualist) school, for whom the statement was one of the great assertions fundamental to his doctrine.

    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

      Dear Sir,

      According to my understanding your good friend had asked me regarding the length in question that whether if it is divisible in various positions or has some limit to it; to that I simplified this by saying every length has to the divisions or scattering has a particular end point to it.

      Hope you got my point!

      Sincerely,

      Miss. Sujatha Jagannathan

      a month later

      Dear Miss Sujata

      There has been much discussion on the subject of the relation of science and religion which mostly dealt with Christianity. I myself concluded that it is best to keep the two separate for best results ! Having said that I must admit enjoying the part of your essay telling about Schrodinger and the others reading the Vedas. You might have added that Oppenheimer the father of the atom bomb quoted the Bhagavad Vita after testing the Bomb :

      """'We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.'""".

      madame Curie believed you should respect people's faith even though you donot share it. For example in my physics theory I believe the concept of time is not fundamental while you explain in your essay that in Hinduism it is. I wish you all success

      with best wishes

      Vladimir