Modern Physical Sciences and Indian Knowledge Systems

Authors: Dr. Mrs. Asima Tripathy, Dr. Rajat Kumar Pradhan,
Publish Date/ Year : May 2025 | Format: Paperback | Genre : Indian Knowledge Systems | Other Book Detail

Modern Physical Sciences have made great strides in providing us with deeper understanding of the microscopic as well as of the macroscopic domains of the phenomenal world of matter-energy information. The fundamental building blocks of physical nature have been experimentally unraveled to the depths of ~10 -20 m while the theoretically proposed minimal length scale is the Planck length ~10 -34 m. Similarly, the dimensions of the universe have been probed to ~ 100 billion light years (~1027 m), which is the diameter of the observable universe. From the earliest recognition of substances as solids, liquids and gases, it has led us to understand them all as made of molecules; molecules as made of atoms which can be arranged in a wonderful periodic table of elements; atoms on their turn, are understood to be made of a nucleus and a swarm of electrons around it, their total charges cancelling out. The charged particles have electromagnetic forces among them which holds them together to bind into atoms and molecules. Further down, the nucleus is made of protons and neutrons, which in turn are made of quarks held together by the strong nuclear force of gluons and are stable unless the weak nuclear force enforces beta decay! T he other force is gravitational, always attractive and felt appreciably with larger masses and it determines the planetary motions, shapes and dynamics of stars and galaxies and Blackholes and of the whole cosmos! Such is the wondrous picture of the universe in all its expanse and minutest details that modern physics provides us with. This is as far as understanding is concerned.

Pages

221 pages

Language

English

Publication date

May 2025

ISBN-13

978-93-6678-769-5

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Dr. Mrs. Asima Tripathy

Dr. Tripathy is a Ph. D. in Zoology (Molecular Biol.) ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research), Bhubaneswar, India and Post. Doc. (Molecular Biol.)- ICMR, ICAR and DBT. Currently, she is serving as Assistant professor of Zoology in the P.G. Department of Zoology and Microbiology, Bhadrak Autonomous College, Department of Higher Education, Govt. of Odisha, India. She has 23 years of research experience and has 20 years of teaching experience. She has published 63 research articles in peer reviewed impact factor and in leading peer reviewed international Scopus journals. She has great expertise and experience of establishing Molecular Testing Laboratories, Animal challenge platform for antivirals-vaccine candidates and Virological research laboratories in reputed research organizations as per NABL and ABSL norms. Her interdisciplinary research interests span across diverse domains such as Molecular Pathology, Molecular Medical Entomology, Molecular Epidemiology, Molecular Vector Biology, Vector-Parasite physiology and biochemistry, Host-parasite interaction, Vector-parasite manipulation and metaevolution, Medical parasitology, Consciousness- Life-evolution, Public Health-COVID-19, Oxyradicals and antioxidant defense system, Cancer principle, One health, Eco-health and sustainability, Impression-urge-thought-epigenetics, Evolutionary biology to cosmology and consciousness-existence of time studies. With Dr. Pradhan, she has proposed Metaevolution as the overarching theory of psycho-biological evolution and also the Disorder Theory of Cancer. She has been actively engaged in research on bringing Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) to the forefront of Modern scientific Research at the fundamental level.

Dr. Rajat Kumar Pradhan

Dr. Pradhan holds a Ph.D. degree in High Energy Physics from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India on the role of conscious observer in Relativity, Quantum Theory and their unification. He has 26 years of teaching experience and 30 years of research experience. Currently, He is Head, Postgraduate Department of Physics in Bhadrak Autonomous College, Bhadrak, having research interest in the fields of Foundations of Physics, Quantum foundations, Vedanta, consciousness research, mind-matter interactions, Psychophysics, Biological evolution and Cancer research. He has proposed an independent new Psychophysical interpretation of quantum theory and has applied it to account for some experimental results such as of the PEAR (Princeton Engineering Anomaly Research) group, unexplainable by any other interpretation and has proposed generalization of Relativity to include subjective relativity and objective relativity in one compass. In collaboration with Dr. Tripathy, he has also proposed niche dynamics and dynamics of individual organisms drawing parallels from classical and quantum physics and a theory of quantum objectivation or manifestation. He has combined Stevens’ law with Fechner’s law of psychophysics by proposing a power law coding and logarithmic decoding of signals in the process of perception. He has so far authored 69 research publications.