Scientific advancements predicted in Hinduism?

[ronki23]

Brahmastra- the precursor to nuclear weapons. Oppenheimer himself quoted the Geeta

Brahmastra - Wikipedia

Hanuman's distance travelled to the sun is precise

Distance between Sun and Earth is Mentioned in "Hanuman Chalisa"- An Ancient Prayer | Science Behind Indian Culture

Matter and antimatter

Decode Hindu Mythology: Astronomy in Hinduism

Evolution

Dashavatara & Darwin's Evolution Theory

Anything else?

 

[Jainarayan]

Oppenheimer himself quoted the Geeta

From the Wiki article: This can be likened to an atomic bomb and Robert Oppenheimer is said to have believed nuclear weapons were used in the Mahabharata[citation needed].

What Oppenheimer said when he witnessed the Trinity bomb detonation was “it brought to mind words from the Bhagavad Gita: ‘Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.’"[2][note 2]

I don’t think he ever suggested nuclear weapons were used in the Kurukshetra War.

The idea of Dasavatara representing Darwinian evolution is bogus in the nth degree. The Dasavatara do not represent the true order of Vishnu’s avatars. There are 24 avatars in a different order.

 

[ronki23]

From the Wiki article: This can be likened to an atomic bomb and Robert Oppenheimer is said to have believed nuclear weapons were used in the Mahabharata[citation needed].

What Oppenheimer said when he witnessed the Trinity bomb detonation was “it brought to mind words from the Bhagavad Gita: ‘Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.’"[2][note 2]

I don’t think he ever suggested nuclear weapons were used in the Kurukshetra War.

The idea of Dasavatara representing Darwinian evolution is bogus in the nth degree. The Dasavatara do not represent the true order of Vishnu’s avatars. There are 24 avatars in a different order.

What other advancements were there?

Matter and antimatter?

The knowledge that each star is a sun and vice versa?

 

[Jainarayan]

What other advancements were there?

Matter and antimatter?

The knowledge that each star is a sun and vice versa?

What does that have to do with my comments? I’m not addressing what the Vedas or other texts say. I was pointing out that the Wiki article is not entirely accurate.

 

[Aupmanyav]

Matter and antimatter?

Yeah, that too - 'Nasadiya Sukta'.

"Sages who searched with their heart's thought discovered the existent's kinship in the non-existent."
Zero-energy Universe. Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 10: HYMN CXXIX. Creation., Zero-energy universe - Wikipedia

 

[ronki23]

Wasn't matter and antimatter predicted alongside Yin-Yang theorem? Which came first, Taoist or Hindu theory?

Hindus predicted that there were 9 planets I believe; don't know which text.

Didn't they also believe the sun was a star?

Yeah, that too - 'Nasadiya Sukta'.

"Sages who searched with their heart's thought discovered the existent's kinship in the non-existent."
Zero-energy Universe. Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 10: HYMN CXXIX. Creation., Zero-energy universe - Wikipedia

 

[Aupmanyav]

Like comparing two cricketers of different era is not useful, comparing Hinduism and Taoism also is not useful. Both were deeply practical and beneficial. So also is Thirukkural of the Tamils.

Hindus predicted that there were 9 planets I believe; don't know which text. Didn't they also believe the sun was a star?

That is astrology, a pseudo-science. Many people do not believe that.

 

[ronki23]

Like comparing two cricketers of different era is not useful, comparing Hinduism and Taoism also is not useful. Both were deeply practical and beneficial. So also is Thirukkural of the Tamils.
That is astrology, a pseudo-science. Many people do not believe that.

But it's true; they didn't consider the Sun as Moon as planets and they knew of other planets in our Solar System. It's also true the Sun is a star; didn't they predict this?

What else did Hinduism predict?

 

[Jainarayan]

Wasn't matter and antimatter predicted alongside Yin-Yang theorem?

Yin and yang are complementary and supplementary, not necessarily opposites. They don’t cancel each other out or annihilate each other. They represent balance. Their complementary and supplementary nature is why they aren’t strictly male-female and cannot, for example, be used as an argument against same sex relationships. Two people of the same sex can have complementary and supplementary characteristics that make a completeness and balance.

 

[Aupmanyav]

Hindus predicted that there were 9 planets I believe; don't know which text. Didn't they also believe the sun was a star?

That is astrology, a pseudo-science. 'Graha' means an astral body or event (Rahu, Ketu), which (according to astrologers) can affect human lives. Many people believe that, others do not.

 

[carmenara]

I'm just going to take the simple humble viewpoint that if we see things like Airbus A380s majestically floating in to land at an absurdly slow speed, F-35s flying remarkably well on tiny wings, and SpaceX's Falcon rockets that can land safely in formation and be re-used like sci-fi spaceships...

One day we might see vimanas in the sky. The science of aeronautical engineering is so advanced in the last hundred years that things that don't look flyable doesn't stop them from flying. And huge fat planes already look like they're floating in midair being so big and graceful.

Fun perception eh

 

[ronki23]

So what did Hinduism predict when it came to physics and the cosmos?

 

[Aupmanyav]

They did not predict anything. Predicting anything would have been a lie and Hindus were not in predicting things. Others claimed they knew all the secrets when they did not know even the questions. Hindus raised questions. Questioning is allowed only in Hinduism and Buddhism. Even science today does not know the answers. We are working on that. Give us a century or so.

 

[Vinayaka]

They did not predict anything. Predicting anything would have been a lie and Hindus were not in predicting things. Others claimed they knew all the secrets when they did not know even the questions. Hindus raised questions. Questioning is allowed only in Hinduism and Buddhism. Even science today does not know the answers. We are working on that. Give us a century or so.

I agree. Prophecy isn't any essential part our religion. It's another of those things that is projected onto us from somewhere else. Makes for good chat, but doesn't actually hold any true meaning , or give us any deep knowledge, or serve any purpose. The future will be what it will be.

 

[Aupmanyav]

"Devo na janāti, kuto manushyah?" (Even the Gods do not know, what to talk of humans?).

The universe is a matter of chaos, probability and uncertainty. I read that fourteen galaxies are congregating towards one point (for us, as the light has taken a long time to come from there. Actually the event took place 12 billion years ago). We do not understand the working of the universe.

Scientists have detected a cosmic "pileup" of galaxies in the early Universe.

"Imaged almost at the boundary of the observable Universe, the 14 unusually bright objects are on a collision course, set to form one massive galaxy. This will in turn serve as the core for a galaxy cluster, one of the most massive objects in the Universe.

The catch? This all happened over 12 billion years ago. Looking this far across the Universe is essentially looking back in time, as the light has taken many billions of years to reach us. The galaxies would have been in their observed configuration when the Universe was a mere 1.4 billion years old. "
Telescope spots galactic 'mega-merger'

Even the stars and galaxies are not in the position in which we find them at present. What we see depends on their distance from Milky Way galaxy or the Solar system.

 

[Kapalika]

At least Hinduism got the correct scale of the age of the Universe, as famously pointed out by Carl Sagan.