Chapter 41: The Discovery of Cosmic Rays – Viktor F. Hess (1883 – 1964) Penetrating Radiation in Seven free Balloon Flights. When these very energetic particles strike the earth’s atmosphere, they give rise to vast showers of other atomic and subatomic particles.
Chapter 42: The Cloud Chamber – Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869 – 1959) On an Expansion Apparatus for Making Visible the Tracks of Ionizing Particles in Gases and Some Results Obtained by Its Use. The marvel of seeing the path of charged atomic particles and of atomic collisions was realized through the trails of fog-like droplets that the particles left in their wakes.
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POSTULATE: Sub-atomic particles are essentially rays.
Chapter 37: The “Thomson” Atom – J. J. Thomson (1856 – 1940) An Arrangement of Corpuscles in the Atom. The electrons are assumed to be corpuscles because their charges are quantized.
Chapter 38: The Determination of Avogadro’s Number – Jean Perrin (1870 – 1942) Brownian Motion and Molecular Reality. It suggests that every fluid is formed of elastic molecules, animated by a perpetual motion.
Chapter 39: The Alpha-Particle and Helium – Ernest Rutherford (1871 – 1937) The Nature of the Alpha-Particle from Radioactive Substance. Direct proof that alpha-particles are indeed ionized helium atoms
Chapter 40: Atoms of Electricity – Robert Andrews Millikan (1868 – 1953) The Atomic Nature of Electricity. Direct experimental measurements to show the constancy of charge and its value.
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POSTULATE: Unlike the material particles, the sub-atomic particles are fuzzy.
Matter is the visible layer of the universe. It is made up of discrete particles. These particles have distinct properties of mass and inertia. The next layer is made up of particles of electricity. They have much less mass and inertia, but they carry the property of charge. The subsequent layers are made up of electromagnetic radiation where “particle” properties are gradually replaced by “wave” properties. Instead of mass or charge, we have the property of “frequency”.
If the layer of matter is solid energy, the next layer of electricity is like a thick fluid of energy. The subsequent layers of electromagnetic radiation are like fluid energy that is gradually thinning in consistency. The “particle” property is slowly replaced by the “wave” property as the fluid energy becomes increasingly thinner.
From material to electricity to electromagnetic layers the flow of energy also lessens in curvature from a tight ball to circles of increasing radius until the path becomes almost a straight line. This gives a vortex-like picture of the atom, galaxy and the universe. at the center of which is the nucleus, or a black hole, and the energy becoming increasingly fluid and thinning toward some indistinct periphery.
The nucleus of an atom is made up of very condensed energy that appears as a solid ball. Electrons are 1840 times “thinner”, and less curved in their path. Schrödinger’s equation simply describes the flow of a very thick fluid-like energy that is curving on itself but has not yet become as condensed as the solid nucleus. Other quantum “particles” are fluid energy that simply varies in consistency and curvature.
The idea of “particle” comes from the impact it generates upon collision. This impact furnishes the ideas of mass and force. If you magnify this quantum “particle” it will appear to be made of a force field spread in space. This is the same thing as fluid energy of a certain consistency. This consistency gets thinner as the “frequency” decreases. So, the bottom most layer of this universe shall have no consistency or “frequency”. This is the significance of the Higgs boson. It is the fundamental layer of the universe that coagulates to form all the layers above it.
When we look at atom as a particle, we shall see it as consisting of all layers—mass of highest consistency at the center to the Higgs boson of least consistency at the periphery of a vortex. What is beyond the Higgs boson is as yet unknown. Maybe those unknown layers beyond are somehow made up of emotion and thought. The question would then become, “What is beyond thought?” Ultimately, we’ll have to admit the presence of some unknown dimension from which thought, emotion, energy and their innate motion arise and, then vanish back into it with the pattern of layers maintained eternally. This is the ultimate study of creation and destruction.
We may refer to the unknown dimension as BRAHMAN or GOD, but that does not make it knowable. We have simply given it another label. This dimension cannot be accessed through reasoning because the human intellect lies in the energy dimension. But it may be accessed in deep state of meditation.
The Isha Upanishad states, “the Brahman forms everything that is living or non-living … the wise man knows that all beings are identical with his self, and his self is the self of all beings.”
Yoga is “Eastern science” that addresses both physicality and spirituality. The “Western science” addresses physicality only.
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Sadhguru on the God Particle, Part I (Jul 6, 2012)
(1) Higgs Boson is supposed to be the field underlying the physical universe.
(2) Intensely looking at the atom may reveal how the universe is made.
(3) Beyond the atom, physicists have discovered subatomic particles; and beyond that is the possible discovery of what is holding these particles together.
(4) The clue lies in the Yogic observation that microcosm and macrocosm are made the same way.
(5) From the viewpoint of the universe each of us is a microcosm. If we can understand ourselves then we can also understand the universe.
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Sadhguru on the God Particle, Part II (Jul 10, 2012)
(1) In Yoga there are concepts of ‘sthoola’, ‘sookshma’, ‘shoonya’ and ‘Shiva’.
(2) ‘Sthoola’ means the gross existence; physicality is sthoola. It is what you sense through your five physical senses.
(3) Beyond that is ‘Sookshma’, which goes beyond the five senses, but still it is physical in nature. Here we have the electromagnetic radiation and its quanta. Here we have the Higgs boson, which is perceived indirectly through mathematical abstraction.
(4) Beyond that is ‘Shoonya’ that means absolute emptiness. There is no matter, energy or physicality.
(5) Beyond that is something referred to as ‘Shi-va’, which means ‘that which is not’.
(6) It is a dimension that lies within you. It is a viewpoint exterior to matter, energy or physicality. It is not in the realm of the logical mind.
(7) When you touch upon this dimension or viewpoint it changes you completely.
(8) ‘Shi-va’ can be experimentally proved within yourself if you are willing to go into the depth of what this is because this is made exactly the same way the whole universe is made.
(9) ‘Shi-va’ is the source of creation that transforms the food you eat into a human being.
(10) You cannot capture the whole universe with your thoughts, which western science is trying to do.
(11) Western science has survived only because of technology. It cannot open up the existence for human experience.
(12) The approach of science is to break things up and see. It can never see the beauty of the thing in its completeness.
(13) Science has become, “How to use everything in the universe for one’s benefit?” It cannot feel life in any significant way.
(14) From what you get you can only make a living, its only by what you give that you make a life.
(15) It is unbridled use of technology that is destroying the planet. It needs to be controlled.
(16) Science should have been just a quest to know; it should not exploit the creation. That would be our nemesis.
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The “criticism” that “Sadhguru’s views on the Higgs boson have been rejected as unproven by science,” is somebody’s misunderstanding of what Sadhguru is saying. Yoga goes beyond physicality; and the western science is limited to physicality only.
