Connection Between Quantum Physics and Upanishads — Coincidence or Reality?
Upanishads, also known as Vedanta, were written at different periods starting 3500 years ago. Vedanta is a school of philosophy in ancient Indian civilization out of the six schools of philosophy I discussed in one of my blogs. Upanishads contain the core philosophy of the society that prevailed during 1000 BC in the subcontinent and have many overlaps with civilizations like the Maya, Inca, and other native American cultures. These overlaps are also part of my ongoing study at the moment. The uncanny similarities between Upanishads and Quantum Physics can be a coincidence in how we view it. This came through deep research, validations, and observations that philosophers realized then. Research methodologies are mentioned in the Nayaya School of Philosophy of the Six Schools mentioned above. As a Physics student interested in Quantum Physics, I have always considered Schrodinger as the Guru. His wave equation is valid in both quantum and classical physics. What is valid in the Quantum world is valid in classical physics, but the vice versa is not valid. Schrodinger often referred to Upanishads, Indian scriptures containing various concepts around Consciousness. Upanishads talk about Karma (laws of actions), cause and effect, real and unreal, creation and destruction, life and death, illusion and reality, physical and abstract, and much more, which find commonality with particle physicists often discuss. Upanishads cover 108 topics, each focusing on a particular area. It is widely believed to be an outcome of debate, discussions, research, meditation, analysis, and much more. There is no mythology or some belief system attached to it, but there are hypotheses, Q&A, agreements, disagreements, and conclusions. Thirteen of them are the main Upanishads covering the bulk of the concepts. Upanishads believe that the world is made of cosmic energy. Everything it sees is a form of energy, but it indicates they all have one common source. It comes from “Brahman,” which means “Cosmic Universe or universal energy,” and our soul, “Atman,” is also a part of that energy, and so is every other entity you see. It says that you cannot realize nor understand that reality and the only way to understand is to negate everything, i.e., in Sanskrit, it says “Neti, Neti,” meaning “neither this nor that.” Schrodinger often used the formula to explain his concept “Atman=Brahman”. He says in his book “What is Life?” and I quote, “From the early great Upanishads the recognition ATMAN = BRAHMAN upheld in (the personal self-equals the omnipresent, all-comprehending eternal self) was in Indian thought considered, far from being blasphemous, to represent the quintessence of deepest insight into the happenings of the world.” Schrodinger then delves into the dilemma of plurality of consciousness and finds it absurd with the risk of attracting the wrath of many. The observed reality around us is felt the same, and hence, is there a shared consciousness that prevails and uses the concept of deception to generate the perceived plurality of consciousness believed by many? This is described as Maya (illusion) in Upanishads, making us see things differently. The concept that everything is a part of Brahman (omnipotent Universal Energy), which drives everything in the real world, is analogous to the quantum theory of everything seen as a waveform, and every equation in the real world can be derived from one wave equation of Schrodinger. But this can be an irrelevant analogy if we miss the forest for the tree. There are more. Brihadaranuiyaka Upanishad (one of the thirteen main) indicates that the Self “Itself’ is unknowable. Further, it says that the Non-Dual Self, as the observer of its projected Creation, is the knower of Itself. This is the ultimate reason that one cannot know the absolute because the self cannot see Itself. This takes the hypothesis further that the observer and the observed are the same and not just connected. A notable example of the observer effect occurs in quantum mechanics, as demonstrated by the double-slit experiment. Physicists have found that observation of quantum phenomena by a detector or an instrument can change the measured results of this experiment. Despite the “observer effect” in the double-slit experiment being caused by the presence of an electronic detector, the experiment’s results have been interpreted by some to suggest that a conscious mind can directly affect reality. However, what exactly changes is unknown unless we agree that consciousness is inherent. Philosophically and Scientifically, reality can never be known, and the observer and the observed are connected, but god knows how. See, the conscious mind can directly affect reality. Upanishads delve deeply into the triad of Mind, Intellect, and Consciousness, striving to uncover incomprehensible mysteries to ordinary people, much like Quantum physics, which is difficult to comprehend. Schrodinger was not the only physicist who used to refer to Upanishads. Neil Bohr was the other one who said in his book — God is not one, “I go to the Upanishad to ask questions.” There are scores of examples from Nikola Tesla and Robert Oppenheimer, who have also quoted about the Upanishads. Whether it is a mere coincidence of a few things that resonated or was there something by design, is not yet very clear to me. But the knowledge of nothingness, concepts beyond space and time, and the idea about consciousness and its connection to reality are attractive for any particle physicists searching for truth. Their keen interest surprised me a little. Consciousness has been an alien subject, untouched by science so far. The uncertain and vast future will revolve around understanding consciousness, replicating and experiencing it, and sometimes recreating it (machine consciousness), which may expose us to many unknowns — the annals of civilizations from the Indian Subcontinent to the Aztecs, the Mayans, the Incas and remaining knowledge of Pagans of Europe are holding an unexplored treasure of centuries of research across various civilization. More concepts we have together taken out but for the present I end it here After all science is also truth as Brahmam. K Rajaram IRS 26224 On Sun, 25 Feb 2024 at 19:29, Markendeya Yeddanapudi < [email protected]> wrote: > > > -- > *Mar*Attempting is Succeeding > > > > We are here because of the energy from the Sun. To be exact we are the > creations of Sun’s photons, photon synthesized. We are embedded with photon > transformations, all containing the photons. > > Light or the flow of photons is the fastest in the universe. That speed of > photons or simply light has set the maximum limit to your own potential > energy. The speed of light has set the maximum limit to energy everywhere. > You have so much energy and if you believe in the true fact and attempt, > you can attempt with your maximum strength, the strength of the photons, > embedded in you. > > E=mc2, is your own potential energy. > > You can actually live such a wonderful life of strength, if you team up > with nature, and create the symbiotic cooperation and collaboration of the > flora and the fauna in your attempt. Purposeful and determined attempt has > so much strength which you can use. Theism is not belief based on logic. It > is experience, when one lives in free and healthy nature as a component of > nature. In such free and healthy nature, your attempt becomes the attempt > of nature. Nature’s symbiosis or simply God is there in every positive > attempt, the attempt which helps and not harms nature. > > Breathing creates emotions. Emotions create the urge to attempt. Breathing > creates smells, smelling creates sensing, which creates sensing and > perceiving, creating the understanding, leading to confident attempting. > Attempting armed with positive emotions, inducts photons the particles of > energy, into your attempt. In the free and healthy nature, every organism > teams up with you, with its photons. > > The basic fact of nature is that in free and healthy nature, attempting is > succeeding. As it is, these are some of the endowments which the energy of > photons is giving you. > > 1) In a single second your body makes one million red blood cells. > > 2) They are simply photons, the basic currency of energy. > > 3) They travel through your veins into the cells keeping you alive. > > 4) In its lifetime, each red blood cell carries oxygen to the cells 1, > 50,000 times. > > 5) The total number of cells in you is seven octillion or seven > followed by 27 zeros (7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000).This is the > figure given by Bill Bryson in his book, ‘The Body’. > > 6) All those cells are photon energized, keeping you alive and active. > > 7) The airways in your lungs are as long as two thousand miles. > > You are a great immensity. When you attempt believing in your strength, > you simply cannot fail in symbiotic attempts with nature as partner. > > When you keep this immensity of you unused and instead use machines to do > the work, you are shackling your cells. They cannot keep themselves > inactive and they begin shaking you, and you shiver. Thanks to technology > which is making our limbs inactive and often redundant, we are becoming > neurotics and we shiver uncontrollably. You are caging your own energy and > that energy is fighting you directionlessly. > > In free and very healthy and lush flora and fauna, you automatically > become nature or the Biosphere. > > Now imagine you running happily, climbing trees, playing with animals, > laughing, singing and dancing, in free and healthy nature. No machine can > defeat you. You simply cannot become scientific and enter the make believe > that you are an outside observer of nature and not an active symbiotic > component of nature. > > Just look at your own body. Even the slightest harm automatically makes > millions of cells in you protect you. Nature too has the same mechanism. > Actually you are part of the macro body, the Biosphere. > > A cell is microscopic in size. But it is a mini universe, with billions of > functioning components. In your DNA, which is six feet long, there are > billions of base pairs, and in every cell of the octillion cells there is > DNA copy. If you tag all the DNA ladders into one straight line, its length > is sufficient to circle the solar system. Physical activity keeps every > part of the immensity, you, active in your macro body nature, provided you > are not poisoning and destroying nature. Base pairs are the building blocks > of the genes that create the instructions for the building of proteins of > your body. > > Technology is making the great wonder ‘you’ inactive and redundant, as you > have functions to perform in nature as a component of nature. > > In your small scale you can do something to help nature and partner with > nature. No machine can equal you in strength or in teaming up with > nature.Partnering with nature and functioning as a limb and component of > nature, which is free and healthy, develops the habit of success in you. > > YM > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CAL5XZoq-MZZeh4OOKefg_Nek0f%2BCmvtL%3DQWMdNJU_kJib81hvQ%40mail.gmail.com.
