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VEDIC PHYSICS Also by the author: India before Alexander: A New Chronology India after Alexander: The Age of Vikramādityas India after Vikramāditya: The Melting Pot Vedic Physics Scientific Origin of Hinduism Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Ph.D. Mount Meru Publishing Copyright © 2015 by Raja Ram Mohan Roy All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including copying, photocopying, scanning, and recording or by any information storage and retrieval system without written permission from the author, except for the material already in public domain or for the inclusion of brief quotations for research or review. The views expressed in this book belong solely to the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher. Neither the author nor publisher is liable for any loss or damages resulting from the use of information presented in this book. Neither the author nor publisher makes any representation or warranty with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the information presented in this book. Originally published in 1999 by Golden Egg Publishing 1245 Dupont Street, P.O. Box 99045 Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6H 4H7 This electronic version published in 2015 by: Mount Meru publishing P.O. Box 30026 Cityside Postal Outlet PO Mississauga, Ontario Canada L4Z 0B6 Email: [email protected] ISBN 978-0-9684120-3-9 Dedicated to Vedic Sages CONTENTS FOREWORD PREFACE 1. THE VEDIC LEGACY 1.1: The Vedas 1.2: The Vedas and cosmology 1.3: The Indus Valley Civilization and the Mahābhārata war 1.4: The Avestā 1.5: The Brāhmaṇas 1.6: The Āraṇyakas and the Upaniṣads 1.7: The Sūtra literature 1.8: The Vedāṅgas, Pariśiṣṭas and Anukramaṇis 1.9: The Purāṇas 1.10: Meanings of the Vedas 1.11: The dating of Vedas 1.12: Commentators on the Vedas 2. THE TIME BEFORE TIME 2.1: The golden womb 2.2: Water everywhere 2.3: Deluge that never came 2.4: The Creator 3. ALL THIS IS PURUṢA 3.1: The Puruṣa hymn 3.2: Man in the image of God 3.3: Secret of the Unicorn 3.4: Puruṣa sacrifice 3.5: The concept of paradise 3.6: The Prajāpati 4. THE EXPANDING EGG 4.1: The expanding universe 4.2: The birth of gods 4.3: The dead egg 4.4: The Lord of expansion 4.5: Puruṣa and Aditi 4.6: Agastya and Lopāmudra 5. EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE 5.1: Indra and Vṛtra 5.2: Frog who drank all the waters 5.3: Electric force 5.4: Surface tension 5.5: Slaying of Varāha 5.6: Bubbles and voids in space 5.7: Deeds of Indra 5.8: Indra, the Bull 5.9: Mighty Hercules 5.10: Serpent as evil 6. PARALLEL SPACES 6.1: Three spaces 6.2 The steps of Viṣṇu 6.3: The hidden spaces 7. THE SEAT OF IMMORTALITY 7.1: The wedding of Vivasvāna 7.2: The field 7.3: Fabric of the universe 7.4: Heaven and Earth 7.5: The cosmic tree 7.6: The giant tortoise 7.7: The geocentric universe 7.8: Superspace 7.9: Triśirā Viśvarūpa 7.10: The dark matter 8. RETURN OF THE ELEMENTS 8.1: Agni (fire) 8.2: Āpaḥ (water) 8.3: Rudra 8.4: Maruta (wind) 8.5: Saraswatī 9. QUARK CONFINEMENT 9.1: Particle 9.2: Bosons and Fermions 9.3: Once-born and twice-born 9.4: The flying horse 9.5: Animal sacrifice 9.6: Quarks 9.7: The sacred cow 10. MATTER AND ENERGY 10.1: Savitā 10.2: Pūṣā 10.3: Lord of the animals 11. ELECTRON, PROTON AND NEUTRON 11.1: Varuṇa 11.2: Ahuramazdā 11.3: Mitra 11.4: Rise and fall of Mithraism 11.5: Aryamā 12. ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM 12.1: Soma 12.2: Indu 12.3: Madhu 12.4: Aśvins 13. LET THERE BE LIGHT 14. THE DANCE OF CREATION 14.1: Uṣā (dawn) 14.2: Nakta (night) 14.3: Lord of the dancers 15. PAIR PRODUCTION 15.1: Matter and anti-matter 15.2: Yama and Yamī 15.3: Saramā and Paṇi 16. THE SEVEN SAGES 16.1: Vasiṣṭha 17. THE GODS GALLERY 17.1: Three-fold division 17.2: Thirty three gods 17.3: The age of Purāṇas 17.4: Incarnations of Viṣṇu 17.5: The legend of Vikramāditya 18: DID BIG BANG HAPPEN? 18.1: The Big Bang Cosmology 18.2: The Steady State Cosmology 18.3: The singularity problem 18.4: The horizon problem 18.5: The flatness problem 18.6: The age problem 18.7: The monopole problem 18.8: The entropy problem 18.9: The antimatter problem