Thursday, December 30, 2010

Ba’ba’s new science is for all

Upton Sinclair, an American political writer, once said: “It is difficult to make a man understand something if his salary depends on not understanding it”.. No doubt this illustrates one of the major problems with “modern” science. The result is that only those research projects attract massive funding which aim at confirming the existing theory of how the Universe works. This theory is called the “Standard Model”, and it is all about fundamental interactions among particles. Doing temple service for the Standard Model is how university careers are built, subsidy pots are cracked, mortgages can be paid and happy retirements are secured.

This explains for example how the “Large Hadron Collider (LHC)” near Geneva could be built, costing an estimated 300mln. Euro, excluding the actual experiments. Hadrons are the collective name for the nuclear particles, so the Hadron Collider is a particle accelerator.


So then, does the Standard Model of physics really explain how the Universe works? The
answer is: no, it falls short. Despite fantastic successes in many practical fields, some fundamental issues still remain unanswered. The consensus is that these questions will be solved by the unification of Quantum Physics and Gravitation. The result would then be called “The Grand Unified Theory”, and everybody would be happy. But Albert Einstein, after formulating his relativity theory, spent the rest of his life in vain searching for the answer, and to this day physics has not produced a Grand Unified Theory. The 300 mln.
Large Hadron Collider will not chance that.

It may thus become clear that, in terms of Ba’ba’s “Varna Cakra” – the Social Cycle, science as a whole has passed beyond its pure “Vipra” phase and is to a high degree controlled by Vaeshyan (commercial) motivations. This is one important reason for a structural lack of conceptual breakthroughs in physics lately.
But the scientific community is itself also in part responsible for this state of affairs. A fair assessment should acknowledge the reality of the social cycle, quite naturally shifting society from an intellectual, into the commercial era. But there is something else too: that is the way how we are doing science. There is a nice Latin term: “Modus Tollens”. This means: by way of proof, that is, knowledge based on observation. This is the proper way how science should be done. The other way is “Modus Ponens”, which means: by way of
theory. This means, looking for proofs which confirm your standard model. This is how science is mostly done today, and has also done since its very beginnings. For example Isaac Newton, the first physicist, when he studied the spectrum of light, for some reason had become obsessed with the idea that the spectrum should match the musical scale. One could say this was Newton’s “Standard Model”. Upon inspection this
appeared not quite the case. To solve his problem, Newton, rather than reviewing his Standard Model, simply invented a new colour, which he called “Indigo”. Now it comes out that “Indigo” does not fit in any logical system of primary and secondary colours, and many people do not even perceive “Indigo” as a distinct hue . Newton may not have been heavily funded in his days, today particle physicists are doing precisely the same. They massively invented numerical values, and use a so called “renormalisation procedure” which are put in by hand to make to make their measurements fit their Standard Model, but no-one has ever confirmed these by observation .

This way of doing science cannot altogether be attributed to the commercial era alone. It is also a question of mindset. Clearly, science has, like so many other occupations, in various ways evolved into an over-institutionalized ivory tower business beyond the naturally required qualifications. Whereas this is so far still a bit of an academic assessment, the far more important question is; what are the ramifications for society?
It seems to be at this point, that Ba’ba’ comes forward with a clear direction in His discourses on microvita theory: “Our task is gigantic and we are to start research work regarding these microvita immediately and without any further delay, otherwise many problems in modern society will not be solved in a nice way”. This can not be interpreted other than in a practical way. That means, that He give microvita science, including
microvita cosmology to find practical solutions for problems facing modern society. This  is not necessarily a spiritual or even psychological path in the first place. It is a path of practical science. It is about a way to tackle the grave environmental problems threatening the entire global ecosystem today, it is about health and medicine, nutrition, transport, communication, agriculture, information technology, bio-technology and many
others. For these problems there exists no more a spiritual ”solution” than there exists for preparing the soil to grow plants if you want to eat. So this is Ba’ba’s new science of the future.
In Ananda Marga, the subject of “microvita” has regularly been addressed the past years, mostly in a rather journalistic style, and mostly in terms of the effect of microvita on the mind, and against the background of traditional philosophy. This is an obvious first step, but the scope and importance are infinitely much broader.  This is Ba’ba’s subject of “microvita and cosmology”, shortly referred to as microvita cosmology. It will be demonstrated how Ba’ba’ came forward with a “Unified Field”-like solution, which can be explained in real scientific terms, reaching way beyond the “Standard Model vs. Gravity” quest of current physics. It is a new and universal science where life itself forms the cornerstone of all creation.

This new science of the future is unique while it should be developed (freely quoting Ba’ba’) not only in the physical lab (which often needs special skills and big funding) but also, and first of all in the laboratory of the mind. So, it can never be an academic or intellectual issue alone. It is a deeply intuitional science plus physics at the same time.

Einstein himself notably said (quote): "The only real valuable thing is intuition". Therefore, Ba’ba’s new science is there for all to explore, as per the adage of “Modus Tollens” – now extended to include the mind itself! It can therefore never be institutionalized, subjected to conservatism or in any way privatized. It is only your choose how deep you want to go, and to what degree you want to explore the real physics side of it.

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