Holistic Science of Life and Living

Author(s): Vitrag Vignan Charitable Research Foundation
Publisher: Vitrag Vignan Charitable Research Foundation

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When scientists examine the properties of these fundamental building blocks of nature, a truly amazing and incompressible face of reality is revealed. Of course, these elementary particles have no substantial form or shape, but also they are nothing like anything that we can express in everyday language. There are no words in our language to describe what they are, because our language can only describe what we see and experience in everyday life. If you ask, "Where is this electron?" an experiment can locate it as here or there. But when you are not looking at it, it can be anywhere. In fact quantum theory tells us that it is everywhere in the universe, all at the same time! Does it remind you of fahafu hat? In the quantum
world a cat can be dead and alive at the same time, if no one is looking! I cannot go into more details here. I only want to say that basic entities constituents of the universe are not only inaccessible to our senses but also indescribable in our language.
I have only tried to draw some parallels between discoveries of science and revelations of our ancient Rushis. It would not be true to say that they have reached identical conclusions. But I find the similarity in some fundamental concepts very interesting and worth exploring. O
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