scholarly journals The Root of Indian Communication Theory in the Ṛig Veda: Practical Vedānta

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Anna Melfi
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Laws Of Nature ◽  
Sesame Seed ◽  
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi ◽  
Unified Field ◽  
Perspective Drawing ◽  
Rig Veda ◽  
The Universe

What is the source of the power of speech and eloquence and fulfillment in life? Though communication and rhetoric departments in most Indian universities have been focusing their teaching and research agendas on Western models, a growing body of scholarship is developing communication theory that approaches the big questions from an Indian perspective, drawing on traditional sources (Adhikary, 2014), which claim Veda as their ultimate source. This paper explores the Vedic worldview on speech and communication proclaimed in the Ṛicho Akśare verse of the Ṛig Veda, and others, drawing on sage Bhartṛhari (c. 450-500 CE), Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1975; 1971), and Sanskrit scholars of the philosophy of language, who reference these hymns. They describe a Vedic cosmology of speech that bears striking resemblance to the universe according to string theory of quantum physics. The science serves to corroborate the premise of Vedic levels-of-speech theory that the universe is structured and governed by laws of nature/language of nature from within an unmanifest unified field of all the laws of nature, which Ṛig Veda 1.164 calls Parā and identifies as consciousness. This inquiry helps to illuminate how speech is Brahman, the source and goal of understanding, eloquence, and fulfillment. The Vedic texts enjoin the sanātana dharma of yoga, opening awareness to the transcendental source of speech. I conclude that Vedic communication theory embedded in the hymns is integral to practical Vedanta. As Muktitkā Upaniṣad 1.9 proclaims: “As oil is present in a sesame seed, so Vedānta is present in the Veda.”

Yes, the Universe Is on Our Side

2021 ◽  
pp. 144-163
Author(s):  
Bruce Ledewitz
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Laws Of Nature ◽  
Process Philosophy ◽  
Alfred North Whitehead ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Final Proof

Lonergan’s question is for all of us, including religious believers. The process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead renders the yes plausible, allowing us to understand the universe as more than dead matter and blind forces. There is no possibility of a final proof in answering Lonergan’s question, but there is knowledge. Kronman is not only the culmination of the no, he is the commencement of the yes. Accepting mortality engenders all human possibilities, including tenderness. The universe is emergent and creative. In its processes, the universe moves in the direction of life, complexity, intelligence, and morality. The stability and universality of the laws of nature support a friendly universe. The Earth maintains conditions for life. Quantum physics demonstrates our connection to matter. History is not circular but directional. Human life is purposeful. None of this is accidental.

Laws of Nature

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Laws Of Nature ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Scientific Theories ◽  
Law Of Nature ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Universe

The concept of a law of nature, while familiar, is deeply puzzling. Theorists such as Descartes think a divine being governs the universe according to the laws which follow from that being’s own nature. Newton detaches the concept from theology and is agnostic about the ontology underlying the laws of nature. Some later philosophers treat laws as summaries of events or tools for understanding and explanation, or identify the laws with principles and equations fundamental to scientific theories. In the first part of this volume, essays from leading historians of philosophy identify central questions: are laws independent of the things they govern, or do they emanate from the powers of bodies? Are the laws responsible for the patterns we see in nature, or should they be collapsed into those patterns? In the second part, contributors at the forefront of current debate evaluate the role of laws in contemporary Best System, perspectival, Kantian, and powers- or mechanisms-based approaches. These essays take up pressing questions about whether the laws of nature can be consistent with contingency, whether laws are based on the invariants of scientific theories, and how to deal with exceptions to laws. These twelve essays, published here for the first time, will be required reading for anyone interested in metaphysics, philosophy of science, and the histories of these disciplines.

Theory of the Stationary Self-Consistent Universe

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Shamailovich Avshalumov
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Theoretical Physics ◽  
Time Model ◽  
Zero Curvature ◽  
Modern Cosmology ◽  
Simultaneous Existence ◽  
Three Space ◽  
Space Time Model ◽  
The Universe

Since the creation of GR and subsequent works in cosmology, the question of the curvature of space in the Universe is considered one of the most important and debated to this day. This is evident, because the curvature of space depends whether the Universe expands, contracts or is static. These discussions allowed the author to propose a paradoxical idea: simultaneous existence in the Universe of three interconnected space-times (positive, negative and zero curvature) and on this basis, to develop a theory in which each space-time plays its own role and develops in a strict accordance with its sign of curvature. The three space-time model of the structure of the Universe, proposed by the author, allows to solve many fundamental problems of modern cosmology and theoretical physics and creates the basis for building a unified physical theory (including one that unites GR and quantum physics).

scholarly journals Le calendrier révolutionnaire de 1793 ou les quatre saisons de la République

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-53
Author(s):  
Paweł Matyaszewski
Keyword(s):  
Laws Of Nature ◽  
New Order ◽  
Natural Cycle ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Universe ◽  
New Time ◽  
The Revolution

The authors of the revolutionary calendar, in particular Gilbert Romme and Fabre d’Églantine not only want to put the past behind by implicating a new time and new order but also try to prove the relation between history and nature using the example of the events of the Revolution and their compliance with the laws of the universe. They introduce an innovative nomenclature in order to specify the names of particular days and months but they do not change the natural four-season model of division. The goal of the presented idea is to enrich the natural cycle with a new content expressing the spirit and the objectives of the Republic while following the laws of nature.

Physics as an Art Form

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Alvaro De Rújula
Keyword(s):  
General Relativity ◽  
Laws Of Nature ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Einstein’S Equations ◽  
Einstein's Equations ◽  
Ockham’S Razor ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Ockham's Razor ◽  
The Universe ◽  
The Way

Beauty and simplicity, a scientist’s view. A first encounter with Einstein’s equations of General Relativity, space-time, and Gravity. Ockham’s Razor. Why the Universe is the way it is: The origin of the laws of Nature.

Interstellar Overdrive

2020 ◽  
pp. 58-66
Author(s):  
Nicholas Mee
Keyword(s):  
String Theory ◽  
Laws Of Nature ◽  
Platonic Solids ◽  
Symmetrical Shape ◽  
Regular Arrangement ◽  
Spatial Dimensions ◽  
The Universe

Kepler sought patterns and symmetry in the laws of nature. In 1611 he wrote a booklet, De Niva Sexangular (The Six-Cornered Snowflake), in which he attempted to explain the structure of familiar symmetrical objects. Almost 300 years before the existence of atoms was definitively established, he concluded that the symmetrical shape of crystals is due to the regular arrangement of the atoms of which they are formed. He also investigated the structure of geometrical objects such as the Platonic solids and the regular stellated polyhedra, known today as the Kepler–Poinsot polyhedra. Like Kepler, today’s theoretical physicists are seeking patterns and symmetries that explain the universe. According to string theorists, the universe includes six extra hidden spatial dimensions, forming a shape known as a Calabi–Yau manifold. No-one knows whether string theory will revolutionize physics like Kepler’s brilliant insights, or whether it will turn out to be a red herring.

scholarly journals Unified field—the universal blueprint?

2000 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 153-168
Author(s):  
M. L. Bhaumik
Keyword(s):  
Human Genome ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Quantum Vacuum ◽  
Physical Sense ◽  
Unified Field ◽  
Fundamental Particles ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Universal Blueprint

The current status of the studies of the origin of the fundamental particles and the universe is presented. These studies indicate the unified field to be the source of both the fundamental particles and the universe itself. Furthermore, as a consequence of the unique properties of the quantum vacuum, the unified field is presumed to exist, in a quantum physical sense, everywhere in the very fabric of spacetime. In an analogy to the characteristics of the human genome, unified field appears to have the basic blueprint of at least everything physical in this universe.

Structural aspect of the locus of the deity Urung Aiyy Toyon of the Yakut pantheon (on the material of the epos olonkho)

2020 ◽  
pp. 33-39
Author(s):  
Marianna T. Satanar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Geometric Model ◽  
Structural Aspect ◽  
Unified Field ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Structural Frame ◽  
Actual Material ◽  
Rational Construction ◽  
The Universe

During the change of the paradigm of development of science towards the formation of a different worldview of the modern scientific picture of the world, accompanied both by humanization and natural science humanitarization, and expansion of the basic fundamentals of scientific and rational construction of humanities. It is timely to analyze the epic locus of the head of the pantheon of Sakha ancestors — Urung Aiyy Toyon perspective of the natural science picture of the world. The article reveals the key importance of the ordering factor of the geometric model in the reconstruction of the structural frame of the pantheon of deities, and then an attempt is made to establish the location of the head of the Yakut Olympus. Their definitions will serve as the first step for a more efficient use of actual material available to date, replete with fragments of informative data. The study is based on the structural-semiotic approach of E.M. Meletinsky, the concept of the synthesis of sciences V.S. Stepin, some statements on the problems of scientific rationality in the humanities of S.P. Kurdyumov, on the semiotics of geometric symbolism in the myths of V.N. Toporov, systemic M.S. Kagan’s approach. In addition to the well-known methods of folklore, methods of extrapolation, empathy, hermeneutical interpretation are used. As a result of interdisciplinary research, the geometric model of the universe of the Yakut worldview is a pyramid-shaped structure, and in accordance with the physical theory of the unified field of the Universe, the patriarch Urung Aiyy Toyon’s locus is located in the upper part of the pyramid, which is confirmed by the revelation of the essence of the numerical symbolism of this deity.

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