Thursday 10 November 2011

पुरातन भारतीय विज्ञानं - Newton's First Law

पुरातन भारतीय विज्ञानं 


Any one will laugh if I were to say Vedas and scripts that are as old as them reveal physics that we now today.But it is the truth.I do not know much of quantum mechanics and stuff..but i feel even the definition of reality that i surfed through the net and read matches some concepts of the adwaitha vedantha.

The hindu religion is not potrayed at all by those who wear all types of wierd dresses and come on TV everyday morning and say this will happen to you if you do this or else you will die.This whole religion is based on facts and scientific principles. 

The thought about sul and its relationship with god is the end result of the religion and it does not convey any give and take policy between the two entities.but sadly that is how it is understood today.

Vedic physics is called as the vaissheshika shastra.(literally meaning : " the postulates tat are particular abt sum thing".)

The schools were of different types.
  • NYAYA                       - LOGICAL 
  • VAISHESHIKA            - PHYSICS 
  • YOGA                         - METAPHYSICS
  • SANKHYA                   - PHILOSOPHY 
  • THARKA                     - DEBATE
  • MEEMAMSA                - DOCTINES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS 
  • VEDANTHA                 - VEDIC KNOWLEDGE 

The nyaya and vaisheshika schools were almost of same thought as physics involved logic.Each school of thought was well established with each SUTRAKARA ( the basic formulae and definition giver) VRITTI grantha (the book that explains the formulae and definitions) and baksha (explation for vritti).

This school of nyaya-vaisheshika (logical and physics) school were presided by rishi GAUTAMA and KANADA respectively,around 5000 YEARS BEFORE !!!!!! 

Rishi kanada gave 373 postulates including the definitions for force,speed,momentum and GRAVITY !!! (beleive me, i can show proof in my following notes-- gravity--they knew it before newton it is named GRURUTHVAATH in sanskrit resembling the english word gravity ).

Now that the introduction to this shastra is done, let me start with basic postulates and move into the definitions of force gravity etc. 

  • the whole world is made of either of the five things :   
  •  1.fluid items       -- AAPA                                                                                        
  •  2. Feild/force      -- VAYU                                                                                         
  • 3.Atomic element.-- PRITHVI                                                                                         
  • 4.Energy             -- Thejas                                                                                          
  • 5.Space              -- AKASHA:
  •  except for space, all other material items are made of discreete ANU(atom) that can be broken down to PARAMANU (sub atomic levels)

  • ENERGY=MASS 

First let us take the definition of force.that is what is dealt in the first chapter. 

the formula 20 of the first chapter says ::

 SAMYOGA VIBHAAGA VEGHAANAAM KARMA SAMAANAM.      [ VAISHESHIKA SUTRA -- 1.1.20]

Samyoga -- Conjunction
Vibhaaga -- Disjunction
Veghaa   -- impulse creating actions
Karma -- FORCE !!

thus..force is that which causes conjunction,disjunction or an impetus.

 which implies .....

 FORCE IS A PUSH OR A PULL !! 

The very next defintion says... 

NA DRAVYANAAM KARMA.  [ VAISHESHIKA SUTRA 1.1.21]

NA - DON'T; DRAVYA - substance  ; KARMA-FORCE 

Do not thing the force is  the body itself.It is different. (it is external that we are talking here) 

Let me go back to the sixteenth postulate of the same chapter to explain further the exension of the same definition. 

It says .. 


Here comes newton's first law...Er...KANADA's LAW !! 

DRAVYASHRAYYAGUNAVAAN SAMYOGA VIBHAAGESHU AKAARANAM ITHI GUNA LAKSHANAM [ VAISHESHIKA SUTHRA 1.1.16]

Dravyashrayee-- in the body; GUNAVAAN -- attributes;SAMYOGA--CONJUNCTION;VIBHAGA-DISJUNCTION; AKARAANAM-- not the reason GUNA LAKSHANAM - charecters of attributes.

It says that conjunctions and disjunctions being caused by force, and that force is not the body itself.the body only possesses its own qualities. Thus it is implied that with only the body and its qualities(no external force), there is no change. NEWTON'S FIRST LAW !!!! 

A body continues to stay stationary without an external force !! 


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