vED OF CURRENT PHYSICS....DEDICATE TIME TO CREATE WEALTH WITH NO SPACE FOR SPENDING WEALTH FOR HAPPINESS.....
Posted by Champaklal Dajibhai Mistry on May 25, 2007

 

HOW PEOPLE FEEL ABOUT PHYSICS
 WHEN PHYSICS IS THE BASIS OF EVERYTHING THAT EXIST
INCLUDING  YOU AND I

WHAT IS PHYSICS:

  • Physics (from the Greek, φύσις (phúsis), "nature" and φυσικῆ (phusiké), "knowledge of nature") is the science concerned with the discovery and understanding of the fundamental laws which govern matter, energy, space, and time.
  • Physics deals with the elementary constituents of the universe and their interactions, as well as the analysis of systems best understood in terms of these fundamental principles.
  • Because physics treats the core workings of the universe, including the quantum mechanical details which underpin all atomic interactions, it may be thought of as the foundational science, upon which stands the "central science" of chemistry, and the earth sciences, biological sciences, and social sciences.
  • Discoveries in basic physics have important ramifications for all of science. Physics attempts to describe the natural world by the application of the scientific method, including modeling by theoreticians.
  • Formerly, physics included the study of natural philosophy, its counterpart which had been called "physics" (earlier physike) from classical times up to the separation of physics from philosophy as a positive science in the nineteenth century, as the study of the changing world by philosophy.
  • Mixed questions, of which solutions can be attempted through the applications of both disciplines (for example the divisibility of the atom) can involve natural philosophy in physics (the science) and vice versa. (From Wikipedia....continue reading by clicking here)

As part of knowledge sharing mandate of PVAF, in today's world physics knowledge discovered by Newton and then turned on its head by Einstein is the basis of all we live with in our daily life as humans on this planet earth. This knowledge is also the basis of going into space exploration to understand everything that exists beyond earth.

Although the knowledge contained in the oldest knowledge text extant in the current times and understandable to those who know sanskrut language is called vED which translates into current human concept as TOTAL SCIENCE OF CREATION AND LIFE.....but due to the effect of the time-era called kli-yug in vED in which the current humanity is existing for the last 5108 years, majority of the humanity with kli-yug effect is not inspired to study vED and live daily life with vED knowledge.....

But this humanity goes after only the knowledge which creates wealth with the false understanding that this knowledge would give happiness in life...and the funniest part of this chase after wealth is the humanity really finds that there is no time even spend the wealth for being happy.....

May be Newton and Einstein physics may lead humanity to make a mid-course correction in the present chase after wealth.....

Isaac Newton ( January 4, 1643 - March 31, 1727, English Physicist, mathematician, alchemist, natural philosopher & greatest figure in the history of science) & Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955 German-born theoretical physicist considered one of the greatest physicists of all time). Newton could ask Einstein:
Can an apple be in dual mode of existence -
a particle form or a wave form?

(Cartoon By Peter Arkle)


Some of the thorniest philosophical consequences of Einstein’s genius and, by extension, the scientific preoccupations of the 20th century while scrolling through Einstein’s life which are also questions whose answers one can find in the study of vED are:

  • the nature of reality,
  • the fate of causality,
  • the comprehensibility of nature,
  • the limits of the mind

Please click on the line outside this box to read a humorous but physicsful article which prayfully will make you think and live by physics without which you will start living again in the "dark world" of western civilization....
 



 

Photographed by Oren J. Turner (1947)

What Spacetime Is It?

NEW YORK TIMES:  November 26, 2006: Dennis Overbye

In a room somewhere in a building outside of time, for reasons he doesn’t quite understand, Albert Einstein sits and works on his universal plan, plays his violin, puffs a pipe and fends off an outraged Isaac Newton, among other visitors. Into this scene comes an unnamed young woman with a tape recorder, which might or might not work under these circumstances — her watch apparently doesn’t — intent on getting an interview.

This setup didn’t inspire high hopes. Not that I hadn’t often wondered, after years of following physics and even writing a biography that involved serious time with Einstein’s personal correspondence, just what I’d have asked the old man if I’d been granted a one-on-one. If, however, this novel’s opening was just a contrivance to have Einstein explain the laws of physics, I was willing to take a pass. Been there; done that.

But Jean-Claude Carričre comes with some serious mojo as a thinker and writer, having worked with the likes of Peter Brook and Luis Buńuel on films like “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie” and “Belle du Jour.” He’s obviously worth risking a few hours with, and I’m happy to report that he far exceeded my meager expectations.

“Please, Mr. Einstein,” unobtrusively translated from the French by John Brownjohn, isn’t so much a novel about physics as it is a novel about how people feel about physics — presumably Carričre, who gives his fictional Einstein all the best lines.

Some, in fact, are like open doors you could wander through and never come out of: “Being distrustful of those who persistently deceived us, we developed the habit of also distrusting the night, which enshrouded us, or so we thought, in gloom and illusion. We put our faith in light alone.”

In its uncounted hours of conversation, “Please, Mr. Einstein” touches down lightly and charmingly on some of the thorniest philosophical consequences of Einstein’s genius and, by extension, the scientific preoccupations of the 20th century while scrolling through Einstein’s life.:

  • the nature of reality,
  • the fate of causality,
  • the comprehensibility of nature,
  • the limits of the mind

It’s easy to see this novel as the germ of a future playlet or movie along the lines of Steve Martin’s “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” or the play and movie “Insignificance,” which featured a mythical Einstein in a hotel room with Marilyn Monroe.

I like Carričre’s Einstein. He’s frank, down to earth and not prone to cosmic mustiness. He’s actually worn an Einstein T-shirt and admits he’s happy to be talking to a woman, especially a woman from the 21st century, because that means his godchild, the atomic bomb, hasn’t destroyed civilization — yet. “I think better when eyes like yours are looking at me,” he tells her, “and when I’m talking to them.”

He’s also happy to be able to correct the record on some of his most quoted statements, including my favorite,
  • “The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is its comprehensibility. What is comprehensible is that the universe is incomprehensible.”

Now he thinks the opposite might be closer to the truth.

Among the features of Einstein’s unusual office are doors he seems able to open on any time and place. At one point, discussing his years in Germany, he and his visitor step out into:

  • A Nazi book-burning.
  • Another excursion provides the surprising climax to an amusing side plot about Newton, who just doesn’t get relativity and quantum theory and keeps pestering Einstein to explain what was so wrong with the clockwork world he described in the 17th century.
  • Finally, exasperated, Einstein calls Newton over and opens a door on the atomic blast that destroyed Hiroshima.
  •  Newton’s wig flutters in the wind from the shock wave. He stares, aghast, then slowly turns transparent and disappears.
  •  Newton’s universe is truly, undeniably dead, and so his sojourn in this intellectual aerie is over.

The rest of what you might call a plot is devoted to the skeletal reliving of Einstein’s years and the progression of his quest for the ultimate equation, which leads into deeper and more frustrating questions, none of which will be answered here.

Only the adepts of ignorance consider themselves satisfied once and for all. When one knows nothing, it’s forever,” this Einstein says, perhaps speaking of certain modern political figures. “All knowledge leads to further obscurities, it’s a well-known fact.”

The brick wall that Einstein hit in his own lifetime was quantum theory, with its message that on the atomic level events happen randomly and without explanation. He famously rejected it by saying that God didn’t play dice. Here he elaborates:

“You asked me to explain, and I told you that explaining is the hardest thing in the world. Now do you see why? Because I’d have to explain that we must give up explaining. And I never would! It would mean going against all that made up my life.”

It’s hard not to wonder what event or discovery could make Einstein turn pale and disappear, ending his universe as definitely as the atomic massacre in Hiroshima said fini to Newton’s. It could be as incomprehensible to us as calculus is to a dog. It could happen tomorrow or in a hundred years. In the face of this, Einstein shrugs and goes back to work. What else can he do?

In Martin’s play, Einstein and Picasso match wits until they’re both shown up by Elvis, in a show-stopping surprise appearance. I missed seeing Elvis or Marilyn here.

Carričre’s slice of the afterlife lacks the kind of cross-cultural mischief that would have put Einstein and science in their place. I love Einstein, and he might be the king of the universe. But he’s still not quite king of the world.

Dennis Overbye is a science correspondent for The Times. His most recent book is “Einstein in Love: A Scientific Romance.”

PLEASE, MR. EINSTEIN: By Jean-Claude Carričre; Translated by John Brownjohn; 186 pp. Harcourt. $22.

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