Thursday, July 4, 2013

Science and Buddhism

I have gotten the following content by listening to the your tube videos by Gerald Penilla.

Three basic principles of Buddhism include:

Emptiness
Interconnectivity
Nature of Reality

There seems to be a parallel between science and Buddhism. There are two ways of understanding the objective reality.  Emptiness can be understood as a potential field in which every possibility arises from. In science talks about wave-particle duality. An apple exists at a particular place but as a wave, it can be present in infinite space. But how can we reconcile the dual nature of material. But of course the dual nature of material has been tested and found to be true. "A particle's quality is not pre-determined but defined by the very mind that is perceiving it. "

It is known that  atoms are 99.9999999% of empty space. In objects made up of such empty atoms, why do we feel the objects as one solid entity? Its because of the strong forces between these atoms similar to the repelling forces of magnets. Any pair of objects are never touching each other but rather objects hover about each other due to the strong repulsion forces between atoms. This is very interesting indeed.  We may regard matter as being constituted by the regions of space in which the quantum field is very intense. This field is present continuously everywhere. ( as if, I do not even know what i am talking ;-)) it is responsible to explain the existence of perceivable objects and about the interactions between perceivable different objects.

Buddhism teaches that there is inherent oneness among everything due to their inter connectivity. Quantum Physics has a phenomenon called quantum entanglement between two particles. Distance between the quantum particles does not matter. Believing the big bang theory, and knowing that everything in the universe started from a single point. We can understand that everything present in  the current state are interconnected with each other. The field that is connecting all these is like the quantum field that is present everywhere. 

All matter originates and exists only be virtue of a force. The end of this video conveys: "Loka samasta sukhino bhavantu"

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