A long and very informative read on Ancient India's contribution to modern scientific thinking

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https://subhashkak.medium.com/indian-foundations-of-modern-science-72259046700f

 

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... if you take the trouble of reading scholarly books, articles and encyclopedias, you will find that in many ways the early Indian contributions are the more impressive for they include a deep theory of mind, Pāṇini’s astonishing Sanskrit grammar, binary numbers of Piṅgala, music theory, combinatorics, algebra, earliest astronomy, and the physics of Kaṇāda with its laws of motion.

Of these, Kaṇāda is the least known. He may not have presented his ideas as mathematical equations, but he attempted something that no physicist to date has dared to do: he advanced a system that includes space, time, matter, as well as observers. He also postulated four types of atoms, two with mass (that turn out to be like proton and electron) and two with little mass (like the modern neutrino and photon), and the idea of invariance. A thousand or more years after Kaṇāda, Āryabhaṭa postulated that earth rotated and advanced the basic idea of relativity of motion.

 

 

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Thanks will read in leisure and comment here. 

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Subhash Kak, a KP refugee , Mathematician and Vedic scholar, also doubts Big Pharma on Covid! A very good read

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Mathematician and Vedic scholar, also doubts Big Pharma on Covid!

It is not uncommon for brilliant experts in one field to be spectacularly wrong about another one.  Often, it is because they are supremely confident of their brilliance that they think they can know it all.

Edited November 9, 2022 by BacktoCricaddict