Indian Mythology - Hindu Mythology and Technology.: Scientific Parallels

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Monday, March 19, 2007

Law Of Entropy in Hindu MYTHOLOGY !.

Hinduism holds that once the Universe was more pure and free of sin, and as the Yugas (Time cycles) progress, the condition of the Universe deteriorates more and more, until at the end of the last Yuga- the Kali Yuga (which is linked with disorder) the state of disorder will reach an apex and then God will come and purge the world of all sin and destruction.
Almost all the religions throughout the world also describe disorder is increasing and that on a final Judgment day (or doomsday)- God will come to cleanse the world of Evil. The Bible has several verses that imply disorder is always on the increase (contrasting with ideas of Civilization, progress and development.)
The Law of Entropy" is the second law of thermodynamics: every reaction, physical or chemical, in this Universe goes forward only if it attains a state of more disorder. By definition entropy is the measure of disorder of a system. For example, the evaporation of water to vapor or melting of ice to liquid leads to more ‘disorder’ among water molecules, which were once tightly packed together but are now more separated and disarranged.
In other words, with forward movement of time, entropy of the Universe increases. This is what is implied in mentioning that the Universe is always moving towards disorder until it reaches a state of maximal entropy.

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The Five forms of matter..

Today scientists recognize mainly four forms of matter- solid, liquid, gas and plasma (which lies at a sort of transition state between energy and matter and exists in stars, etc). Apart from this, energy is also considered a form of matter (or vice-versa) after Einstein proved energy and matter could be interconverted through the famous formula E=mc2.
Hindu texts state that the World is made of five elements (PanchaTatva): Earth (Bhoomi), Water(Jal), Air(Vayu), Fire(Agni) and Sky (Aakash).
Soil, water, air and fire describes the scientific forms of matter - solid, liquid, gas and energy, while the fifth Hindu element - sky - might describe vacuum - nothing but empty space, or even Ether, a hypothesized fluid said to span the entire universe.
Thus the forms of matter are covered in the Panchatatva.

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Mention of existence of radioactive ores on coast of India.

Hindu mythology relates the end of the Krishna Avatar of the God Vishnu and his clan to a curse. It says that according to a curse, the fall of the Yadava clan of Krishna was to be from a particular mace. In order to negate the threat of this curse, the Yadavas powdered this mace and put it into the ocean. This powder was washed ashore where it mingled with the sand on the coast and grew into a deadly grass, and here the Yadavas are said to have fought and died.
According to mythology, Krishna’s empire spanned the western Malabar coast of India, with capital at Dwaraka in Gujarat. However, the Malabar coast is also famous for another thing- it holds the world’s richest sources of radioactive Thorium and also quantities of Uranium. Much of the world's current demand for thorium metal and its compounds is satisfied by mining placers along India's Malabar Coast, where wave action deposits monazite as a coarse yellow-to-brown sand on beaches. Also, the study of geochemical behavior of thorium and uranium isotopes and their activity ratios have in the coastal marine sediments of the West Coast region of India and the surrounding sea region show that these regions have an anomalously higher concentration of radioactive ores when compared to the northern or eastern Indian coast (for more detailed explanation of this study mail me). Scientists maintain that results of this study can be correlated with the transport and deposition of artificially introduced radioactivity or any run-off terrestrial pollutants in the region.
A ‘deadly sand’ could be descriptive of the West Coast's radioactive ore - which may have led to the destruction of the Yadava clan.
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Earth’s spherical nature mentioned in the Bhaagavta...

The ‘Bhaagavata’ describes in detail the Hindu God Vishnu and his ten incarnations. The very beginning of Bhaagavata mentions earth as the ‘BhooGola’- meaning the sphere of earth. The same spherical nature of earth has been mentioned several times throughout the text (especially in the Varaha avatar- boar form). Though we know that now it is accepted that earth is spherical(more or less) this is an amazing fact that it comes from such an ancient age when people were believed to be in the middle of the ‘earth is flat’ superstition.
Note- The spherical nature of Earth seems to have found voice in the Bible also, where it refers to the ‘Circle Of Earth’, which probably implies the round or spherical shape of earth.

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The Law of conservation of energy in Hinduism

The ‘Shivpurana’ is a set of texts devoted to the history and description of Shiva - a Hindu God. One of the lines says-
“He is Shakthi(meaning energy or power)…. He was never created, he is never destroyed. He exists, and is seen in many forms by us.”
In this quote, if one substitutes ‘energy’ instead of ‘he’, it suggests the Law of conservation of energy. It is said in the beginning that ‘he is shakthi’ there could clearly be no other meaning implied. This is amazing, to know that such a law that was discovered in a comparatively later age (latter half of second millennium) was known even in the ancient ages in India.
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Saturday, February 17, 2007

Exclusive photos

This photo on the left is of Dhritrashtra with Sanjay

narrating the incidences happening in the

Mahabharata War.

This photo on the right is of Ravana carrying
sita away on his pushpak Vimaan.

Friday, February 9, 2007

If you dont Believe me !

These stories may seem science fictions to some who don't believe them and may be alright to others but i have to tell you one thing that these stories or instances have a solid proof behind them . If you dont Believe me , or you think that these persons didn't exist in real life like Lord Rama And His Monkey army and also Ravana. Here is a proof for you people .! This photograph was taken by Nasa of the bridge built between India and Sri lanka By the monkey army or 'Vaanar sena' .