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to be able to predict events in the future” (Le Come du Nouy in The Human Destiny). In Upanishadic terminology, science stands for Apara Vidya. In the words of Einstein :
**The scientific method can teach us nothing else beyond how facts are related to and conditioned by, cach other. The aspiration towards such objective knowledge belongs to the highest of which man is capable...yet it is equally clear that knowledge of what is does not directly open the door to what should be, One can have the clearest and most complete knowledge of what is, yet not be able to deduce from that what should be the goal of our human aspirations. Objective knowledge provides us with the powerful instruments for the achievement of certain ends, but the ultimate goal itself and the longing to reach it. must come from another source”.
Science has unlimited power to explore matter but by its very nature it cannot go beyond the matter. Beyond the matter is the Field.” The presence of the matter is merely a disturbance of the perfect state of the field at that place; something accidental, one could almost say, merely a blemish" (Walter Therring). The underlying entity or the field, is the Immaculate space. What exists is this space, what appears in the space is incidental and so devoid of significance. In the words of Einstein, We may regard matter as being constituted by the regions of space in which the field is extremely intense....... There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the field and the matter, for the field is the only reality.
"The distinction between matter and empty space finally had to be abandoned when it became evident that virtual particles can come into being spontaneously out of the void, and vanish again into the void ...... According to field theory events of this kind happen all the time. The vacuum is fair from empty. On the contrary it contains an unlimited number of
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