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Chown, Marcus: As a science writer I am constantly amazed by how much stranger science is than science fiction, how much more incredible the Universe is than anything we could possibly have invented. Einstein said: “Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.” My idea is to try to help ordinary people understand the principal ideas of 21st-century physics. Easier said than done. Quantum theory in particular is a patchwork of fragments, accrued over the past 80 years, that nobody seems to have sewn together into a seamless garment. What’s more, crucial pieces of the theory, such as “decoherence”—which explains why atoms but not people can be in two places at once—seem to be beyond the power of physicists to communicate in any intelligible way. (Once Sujata-pseudonym- famous Science writer/Engineer who invented EVM machines at BHL for elections said that he believed GOD as he can exist at two or more places like atoms of quantum theory as per Hindu mythology and not for any other reason ) Atoms were so small, in fact, that if the billions upon billions of them in a single breath were spread evenly throughout Earth’s atmosphere, every breath-sized volume of the atmosphere would end up containing several of those atoms. Put another way, every breath you take contains at least one atom breathed out by Albert Einstein—or Julius Caesar or Marilyn Monroe or even the last Tyrannosaurus Rex to walk on Earth! What is more, the atoms of Earth’s “biosphere” are constantly recycled. When an organism dies, it decays and its constituent atoms are returned to the soil and the atmosphere to be incorporated into plants that are later eaten by animals and humans. “A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur,” writes Norwegian novelist Jostein Gaarder in Sophie’s World. Atoms are nature’s Lego bricks. They come in a variety of different shapes and sizes, and by joining them together in any number of different ways, it is possible to make a rose, a bar of gold, or a human being. Everything is in the combinations. If the idea of the entire human race fitting into the volume of a sugar cube sounds like science fiction, think again. It is a remarkable fact that 99.9999999999999 per cent of the volume of ordinary matter is empty space. If there were some way to squeeze all the empty space out of the atoms in our bodies, humanity would indeed fit into the space occupied by a sugar cube. The appalling emptiness of atoms is only one of the extraordinary characteristics of the building blocks of matter. Another, of course, is their size. It would take 10 million atoms laid end to end to span the width of a single full stop on this page, which raises the question, how did we ever discover that everything is made of atoms in the first place? The idea that everything is made of atoms was actually first suggested by the Greek philosopher Democritus in about 440 BC.
The idea behind the STM, (Scanning Tunnelling Microscope) as it became known, was very simple. A blind person can “see” someone’s face simply by running a finger over it and building up a picture in their mind. The STM works in a similar way. The difference is that the “finger” is a finger of metal, a tiny stylus reminiscent of an old-fashioned gramophone needle. By dragging the needle across the surface of a material and feeding its up-and-down motion into a computer, it is possible to build up a detailed picture of the undulations of the atomic terrain. Of course, there is a bit more to it than that. Although the principle of the invention was simple, there were formidable practical difficulties in its realisation. For instance, a needle had to be found that was fine enough to “feel” atoms. Binnig and Rohrer Nobel prize winners for Physics were the first people in history to actually “see” an atom. Their STM images were some of the most remarkable in the history of science, ranking alongside that of Earth rising above the gray desolation of the Moon or the sweeping spiral staircase of DNA. Atoms looked like tiny footballs. They looked like oranges, stacked in boxes, row on row. But most of all they looked like the tiny hard grains of matter that Democritus had seen so clearly in his mind’s eye, 2,400 years before. No one else has ever made a prediction that far in advance of experimental confirmation. But only one side of the atom was revealed by the STM. As Democritus himself had realised, atoms were a lot more than simply tiny grains in ceaseless motion. Rishi Kashyap who is the father of Adityas [Devas], Daityas,{Asuras) Rudras, Vasus, Danava, Nagas, Maruts, Gandharvas, Apsaras, Mansa, Iravati, Aruna, and Garuda. and Garuda and Aruna were the sons of Kashyapa and Vinata is said to born in 600 BC, near Dwarka, Kashyap is the actual father of the Atomic theory according to Hindu Mythology in contradiction to VEDAS are created by sages to worship Devas 5000 years ago.)
whether charvakas, the atheists existed during vedic age? AI Mode:
Yes, atheistic and materialistic ideas that later became systematized in the Charvaka (also known as Lokāyata) school of philosophy existed and were debated during the Vedic age.
While the Charvaka school as a fully formed, codified system of philosophy is generally considered to have emerged around the 6th century BCE, during the period of the Upanishads and the rise of Buddhism and Jainism, its foundational tenets have traces even in the Rigveda, the oldest Vedic text.
Key points:
Vedic Traces: The Rigveda contains hymns that express forms of skepticism. One of the oldest Upanishads, the Brhadāranyaka (c. 900 BCE), records philosophical discussions where an interlocutor states, "after death there is no awareness," which reflects an early form of the Charvaka denial of an afterlife.
A Systematized Reaction: The Charvaka philosophy developed as a distinct, heterodox (nāstika, meaning "heterodox" or "does not exist" in the sense of not accepting Vedic authority) school in direct opposition to the dominant Vedic worldview which focused on rituals, the soul, and the afterlife.
Lost Texts: Most primary Charvaka texts, such as the Brhaspati Sutras, are lost. Knowledge of their philosophy comes mainly from secondary literature, including shastras, epics like the Mahabharata, and the works of rival schools (like Buddhist, Jain, and orthodox Hindu philosophies) that presented Charvaka ideas to refute them. The fact that other major schools consistently felt the need to argue against Charvaka views indicates they were a significant and prevalent part of the ancient Indian intellectual landscape.
Prominent Thinkers: Figures considered to be forerunners of the Charvaka, such as Ajita Kesakambali, were active around the 6th century BCE, a period often considered the end of the late Vedic period and start of the post-Vedic Sramana movement.
In conclusion, atheistic and materialistic ideas were present and actively debated within the broader intellectual and spiritual discourse of ancient India, even during the Vedic age, long before the more formal establishment of the Charvaka school.
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