Tag: Physics

  • Is the Universe a Simulation?

      It seems to me we have finally come around to proving mathematically what Hindus and Buddhists have been saying all along — this world is an illusion: …If Pythagoras had not lived, or if his work had been destroyed, someone else eventually would have discovered the same Pythagorean theorem. Moreover, this theorem means the…

  • Water Drops, Daisies and Bumblebees

    The photo above provides a wonderful demonstration of the physics of light in water drops as well as the attraction of water molecules to plant molecules and to one another. In this case, the liquid drops result from rain and fog. A drop of liquid behaves like a simple lens – just like a camera. Therefore, the refracted image is upside-down when viewed through the drop. Somehow, bees,…

  • Merging of Science and Spirituality

    In an article in The New India Express, Swahilya Shambhavi reflects on the merging of science and spirituality: Though the borders of science are closely merging into spirituality when it comes to subjects such as quantum physics, which tells us that each time someone observes this universe, the whole pattern changes. That is what Vedanta…