[Advaita-l] The universe, its reality, etc. from a scientist's view

[V Subrahmanian]

 Someone posted these comments to one of my blogs:

https://adbhutam.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/advaita-and-science-ix-schrodinger-and-vedanta/#comment-2323


 //It is a well known FACT that Heisenberg’s principle of uncertainty is
today considered the basis of quantum physics.He was well aware of the
parallels of quantum theory with indian mysticism and himself admitted that
his conversations with Tagore had helped him a lot in his work. Though His
theory was ridiculed by his peers as “atomystics” until subsequent
experiments proved it correct.Strangely,the temperament of the scientific
community is more or less the same after so many decades. //

Another comment:  As noted by Newton’s biographer Richard Westfall:
“The ultimate cause of atheism, Newton asserted, is ‘this notion of bodies
having, as it were, a complete, absolute and independent reality in
themselves.’’ These notions include:
(a) Locality: the idea that objects are localized, so that their effects
radiate outward from them to neighboring objects; that they can act only in
a causal way upon each other, and then only be mechanical means such as the
exchange of light signals.
(b) Realism: the idea that phenomena we observe are the result of some
independently existent reality. From all experiments, we have seen that
locality and realism cannot be the features of the world.
Thus,we can safely conclude that the pillars of atheism have been shattered
for good.

“The stream of knowledge is heading toward a non-mechanical reality; the
universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great
machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm
of matter, we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm
of matter. Get over it, and accept the inarguable conclusion. The universe
is immaterial-mental and spiritual.”
– R.C. Henry, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins
University – The Mental Universe”


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subbu