The leader of the team that has developed the model based on amplituhedron, Nima Arkani Hamed points out that this new model replaces the traditional method using the Feynman diagrammes which requires infinitely complex calculations to account for particle interactions. It therefore opens the door to the achievement of the long-sought Unified Field Theory, the holy grail of science but even more profoundly it reveals that --change arises from the nature of the object but it is not the object changing". In that optic "particles only appear to exist" to the observer as epiphenomena resulting from those geometric interactions. "The object is basically timeless" (ibid.) as Taoism and Zen Buddhism teach. Physics can then free itself from the two imperatives of locality and unicity and merge with metaphysics. Intriguingly the model predicts the existence of a "master amplituhedron" endowed with an infinite number of facets, like a circle has an infinite number of sides, which could be seen as the saguna brahman of Vedanta, the cunya of the Buddhists and the Pleroma of Greek theologians.
More generally, the panbiotic cosmology of the major Asian civilizations, in which all creation is alive and endowed with some kind of sentience and intelligence, including even minerals, plants as well as planets, elements (such as fire, water, air et al.) is increasingly relevant to the emergent picture of nature according to the ecological perspective. The Indian scientist PC Bose conducted the first experiments to prove the sentient and animate life of plants, doubtlessly guided by his ancestral culture.
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scientific theory of governance, rooted in the observation and understanding of
natural laws, was developed early in both
4-Although
the accounts of mankind's origins and chronology contained in the Puranas and
other texts are still regarded as fictitious and irrational by most modern
scientists, some researchers such a Michael Cremo have studied them without
prejudice and hypothesized that they might reflect some unknown stages of our
remote past. Some tantalizing material indices have been found, like the famous
3,75 million years "human" footprints discovered in Laetoli in
5-Mathematics was independently developed very early in East, South and West Asia but the contribution of India is truly essential: the zero, the number Pi, "Arabic" numerals, algebra, the decimal and binary systems, the place value relation in numbers, the so-called Pythagorean theorem, the golden number and the "Fibonacci series", calculus, algorithms all possibly have their origins in very ancient technical treatises dealing with astronomy, chronology, the calendar, the design of sacrificial altars, metrics, prosody and pure geometry, from the vedic Sulba Sastras to Pingala's Chhandashastra, the Aryabhatiya and the works of Madhava and the medieval Kerala school of mathematics. The invention of mathematical games such as backgammon, chess, chaupar, goh and others also played a seminal role. This is now recognized by the foremost historians of mathematics such as George Ifrah.
6-Those diverse schools of knowledge represent visions and methods of exploring reality that are not mutually exclusive and that may be deemed complementary. Just as physics, biology and chemistry deal with different aspects or orders of the same reality that obey their own specific laws. Reality ultimately both encompasses and transcends all descriptions. Physics acknowledges it when it defines its models as elegant and useful representations that cannot lay claim to being absolutely true, accurate and comprehensive.
7- The presence of the allegories of both the web or net (jala, a noun also applying to water) and cloud (megha: a "net" of water droplets) in Indian philosophy and literature finds some elucidation in the contemporary reality of ICT in which cloud computing emerged, after the worldwide web or Internet out of the theory and practice of particle physics in the context of the CERN.
8- S N Bose played seminal role in the discovery of the "Boson Einstein condensate phenomenon" from 1924, and thereby in the emergence of quantic physics when his work led to the abandonment of the classical physics model based in the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution for subatomic particles, due to the effect of the uncertainty principle. Bose however has been largely forgotten even though one of the most significant developments in physics lately has been the confirmation of the existence of the elusive "Higgs Boson" or scalar particle which is held to lend mass to all those that have it.
9-The
BRICS countries are laying out a 34 000 km long, 2 fibre pair, 12.8 Tbit
capacity submarine cable that will connect Vladivostok in Russia, Shantou in
China, Chennai in India, Cape Town in South Africa and Fortaleza in Brazil. It
is expected to be operational by mid-2015 and independently Brazilian President
Dilma Roussef, has declared her governments resolve to build an independent
Internet infrastructure that will free the country from
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of Science in Early
Zero is Not The Only Story P Priyadarshi, (India First Foundation, 2007)
Divine Proportion: Phi in Art, Nature and Science P Hemenway (Springwood SA, 2008)
http://www.indianscience.org/essays/essays.shtml/
The Shorter Science and Civilisation: an abridgement of Joseph Needham's Original Text
Colin
Roman,
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