Einstein : Albert (1879-1955), born in Germany of Jewish parents, theoretical physicist, best known for the formulation of the relativity theory. He was one of the most creative intellects in human history, & was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for physics for his photoelectric law & work on theoretical physics. He became an American citizen in 1940. Interestingly, Einstein held that “Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.” [Readers’ Digest, Nov.1973]
... the early days of relativity theory, asked Einstein what effect his theory would have on religion, Einstein answered: "None. Relativity is a purely scientific theory and has nothing to do with religion." This answer seems to give short shrift to any attempt at aligning with a mystical view of the universe the revolution in scientific thought which Einstein brought about. But Eddington suggests that... the way, that Eddington's excuse for Einstein does not seem quite pertinent. Einstein may have wished to dissociate his theory from the claims based on table-rapping and the ouija board. But Archbishop Davidson could scarcely have appeared to him their champion. The more serious-minded among the religious interpreters of relativity theory believed that Einstein confirmed an attitude which was usually... by the back-door such entities as Einstein threw out by the front one, our answer is: "Einstein threw out what insisted on being regarded as the basis of the observable when it was really playing no such indispensable part. The 'lumber' equations do not pretend to be basic in the least. They are not at all in the same case as the 'unobservable' rejected by Einstein: they do not introduce by any back-door ...
... really exist. The sole real revolution effected by Einstein is for them the joint difference which space- measurements and the time-measurement undergo according to the difference in motion-rate. Inasmuch as space and time together undergo this difference, unlike in Newton's system, these quantities figure revolutionarily in the system of Einstein, but space is space and time is time and no amount... in Newton's physics, only relativities really exist here. But they deny a real Einsteinian absolute on account of missing the important point which emerged when Einstein stated his relativities and stopped short of any absolute. Einstein stopped short not because any absolute was bound to be really inexistent: he did so because his own immediate aim was limited and he never looked in the direction... minus quantity compensating for and cancelling the plug quantity necessary for the absolute measurement. Thus the static ether and through it absolute space were saved for physics. Einstein launched a double attack on this interpretation. He said that if no absolute measurement can ever be obtained, then whatever be the reason for the failure the Newtonian concept of motion and space ...
... l tests. Thus the general theory of relativity propounded by Einstein in 1916 was not criticised because it introduced a "curved" four-dimensional continuum which no physicist could possibly experience or register on measuring instruments: the only items considered open to criticism were the Page 289 deductions Einstein made from his fundamental axioms deductions which could be interpreted... stranger to physics. But till now it has never openly figured in the method of this Page 291 science. Einstein has given it a legitimacy and a pervasive significance and a central place in scientific philosophy which have strong ultra-materialistic undertones. Einstein calls the intuitively reached fundamental axioms of physics "free creations". He alternatively names them "free i... in abstract mathematical symbols in either department and even a rapport between certain aspects of the microscopic and the macroscopic has been attempted by Bohr from the side of quanta, while Einstein till the day of his death kept trying his hand at a field-theory to unify both the departments from the side of structured space-time. Yet, whatever the internal ordering and the inter-departmental ...
... well-known friend, Albert Einstein. [...] During the summer of 1913 she tried her strength by a walking tour in the Engadines, rucksack on back. Her daughters accompanied her with their governess and the group of excursionists also included the scientist Albert Einstein and his son. A charming 'comradeship of genius' had existed for several years between Mme Curie and Einstein. They admired each other;... enormously amused by this journey A little behind, the voluble Einstein, inspired, would expound to his confrere the theories which obsessed him, and which Marie, with her exceptional mathematical culture, was one of the rare persons in Europe to understand. Irene and Eve sometimes caught words on the fly which seemed to them singular. Einstein, preoccupied, passed alongside the crevasses and toiled up... succeeded in making her greater or less, in sanctifying or debasing her, she was on the last day just as gentle, stubborn, timid as in the days of her obscure beginnings.... this eternal student, of whom Einstein said, "Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted." Passing like a stranger across her own life, intact, natural and very nearly unaware of her astonishing ...
... Science is that Einstein has given "intuition" a legitimate place at the very basis of theoretical physics. The General Theory of Relativity has not only revolutionised our ultimate concepts but also brought about a revolutionary ideal of what these concepts may be and a revolutionary method of reaching them. Although meant to explain the sense-perceived universe, they become, as Einstein says, "steadily... Mozart's inspired imagination. And in the search for such theories the physicist, writes Einstein, "is compelled in an increasing degree to be guided by purely mathematical, formal considerations... Experience may suggest the appropriate mathematical concepts, but they most certainly cannot be deduced from it". Einstein calls the fundamental axioms of physics "free creations of the mind". For, in his own ...
... much so that some people have dared to speak of him in the same breath as Einstein. It is news for me to hear from you that he favours the Einsteinian re-entrant universe - "a cosmos," as you say, "which is both finite and boundless, comparable to the surface of the earth which begins and ends nowhere." According to Einstein, gravitational masses so affect the "field" round them that objects move... ble to our minds evoked in Einstein what he termed "the cosmic religious emotion" which he put as the fount of all true scientific quest for some all-synthesising, all-harmonising, all-explaining "unified theory". Here he is nearer than Hawking to the philosopher Spinoza. There seems to be something cold-blooded about Hawking. Spinoza is even more suffused than Einstein with the cosmic religious emotion ...
... the whole scientific outlook, but something of the kind was an imperative need in order to save Science from inconsistencies that seemed to be inherent in it. The scientific outlook was vitiated, Einstein said, because we started from wrong premises; two assumptions mainly were responsible for the bank-ruptcy which befell latter-day Science. First, it was assumed that a push and pull – a force (a ... acted upon isolated and independent particles strewn about; and secondly, they were strewn about in an independently existing time and Page 314 an independently existing space. Einstein has demonstrated, it seems, successfully that there is no Time and no Space actually, but times and spaces (this reminds one of a parallel conception in Sankhya and Patanjali) , that time is not ... uniform, ------------------------------------------- ¹ The constancy of the velocity of light, it must be noted, is not altogether an objective fact: it is a supposition by which Einstein tried to explain certain anomalies in previous theories. It is really, as some have pointed out (e.g. Hans Reichenbach-Atom and Cosmos-po 136), a mental formula, part of a built-in structure ...
... important factor is ultimately intuition," said Einstein to Alexander Moszkowski. And Einstein believes also that if mathematical intuition is to be a discovery of truth, there must be a pre-established harmony between man's mind and the nature of the universe and that this nature must be expressing a supreme Intelligence ordering things mathematically. Einstein has often declared himself to be a pantheist... Science, Materialism, Mysticism The Originality of Einstein A "Close-Up" of the World's Greatest Scientist On April 18, 1955, died Albert Einstein who had been born on March 14, 1879. To have lived in the time of a man like him has been a rare privilege. For, there is not the slightest doubt that he is the most original thinker in the whole... "laws" was considered inconceivable and impossible; they were taken to be self-evident truths of the world and the essence of rationality. Before Einstein, there had been a little scepticism here and there about them, Page 109 but it was Einstein who, in the strictest scientific sense, proved them wrong and showed the physical universe to be inexplicable in their terms. This is the fundamental ...
... text was written by Einstein in German and first published in 1934. The selections presented above are taken from pages 7 to 10 of the English translation by Alan Harris, published by The Philosophical Library, New York, in 1949, under the title The World as I see It. A few dates 1879 Birth of Albert Einstein in Ulm, Germany. 1900 Einstein becomes Swiss citizen... of Einstein's theory by astronomers. 1921 Nobel prize of physics. 1933 Einstein leaves Germany and settles in America (Princeton). 1955 Death of Einstein. The New Physics In two articles published in 1905, Einstein initiated two revolutionary trends in scientific thought. One was his special theory of relativity; the other... interested the young Einstein much more than school. By fifteen he gave up school altogether and went with his parents from Germany to Italy. Eventually, he applied for The Polytechnic in Zurich, only to fail the entrance examination. He studied for another year to make up for his deficiencies and passed the examination the following year. Still a 1. D. J. Raine, Albert Einstein and Relativity (Pitman ...
... pursuit of truth can never be possible without "cosmic religious emotion". "What deep faith," exclaims Einstein, "in the rationality of the structure of the world, what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world, there must have been in Kepler and Newton!" Einstein sums up his notion of science's dependence on response to a Superior Intelligence mathematically operative... is concerned with the discovery of the basic axioms of physics. Einstein says that these axioms are not reached by generalising from observed facts: the Theory of Relativity has decisively shown this. Experience may suggest certain lines of thought but by no process of induction are the fundamental laws derived. They are what Einstein calls "free creations" of the mathematical mind. They are a visionary... themselves cannot be inferred from experience. "There is no logical path to these laws," writes Einstein, "only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them." So an authentic power of direct divination, a faculty not only supra-sensible but also supra-logical is granted by Einstein in even his scientific capacity. And although it is hedged round by several conditions, so ...
... limited visions of spatio-temporal events. It is illuminating in this context to mark what Lincoln Barnett in his book The Universe and Dr. Einstein, 60 to which Einstein contributed a foreword, sees when looking forward to the unified field theory: "the urge to consolidate premises, to unify concepts, to penetrate... Kuznetsov, Chairman of the International Einstein Committee, has recounted: In Einstein's attitude towards death we find a certain synthesis of Tolstoy's sense of kinship with nature and the absorption in human problems characteristic of Dostoyevsky. When a visitor once asked Einstein how he would judge his life on ... interplays, by diverse disguises and revelations of itself. 6 The Muddle over Einstein A favourite tactic of Mr. Alvares is to appeal now and again to Einstein's theory of relativity in order to castigate ...
... speculate about how hard it was to accept the notion that the universe might have had a beginning.” 7 Indeed, in 1933 the universe was still assumed to be eternal and unchanging, and when Albert Einstein, then already a celebrity, endorsed the first propositions of something like a Big Bang model, he was vehemently attacked and even ridiculed. (In the history of science, there has never been a new... observations.” And string theory has spawned not only the possibility of a multitude of universes, a “multiverse,” but an infinity of them. Paul Steinhardt is not a science fiction writer, he is Albert Einstein Professor of Science at Princeton. His opinion: “Recently some cosmologists have been exploring the possibility that the universe is exponentially older [than thought until now]. In this picture,... The wisdom of ages in East and West has held that the layers of reality are those of matter, the life forces, mind, and the spirit, in the traditions called the “Chain of Being.” Since Lorentz and Einstein materialistic science has to accept from its formulas that matter equals energy, and that each term can be transformed into the other. 32 Two of the basic tools of the scientific method are measurement ...
... the image of the scientist, more specifically the physicist, as a sort of higher being with an intellect out of the ordinary, who indeed sometimes seeks “to understand the mind of God” (cf. Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking). The acceptance of such a view would put science and the crucial decisions made by scientists in our societies beyond the reach of the general public. It would also mean certain... and riddles that have been discovered since he made his voice heard. The picture of the cosmos has changed in amazing ways since Aristotle, then Ptolemy, then Copernicus, Galileo and Newton, then Einstein, and it is changing today with the powerful telescopes on and above earth. Another question altogether is whether all this has taken the human being out of the centre of the universe. If the humans... the 20th century physicists, quoting some of them extensively. His conclusion is clear and convincing. The physicists who worked out the two great revolutions of relativity and quantum mechanics – Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrödinger, Eddington, and others – were also profound philosophers and even, Wilber writes, mystics. The reason was that they felt themselves confronted with the essence of things ...
... Science, Materialism, Mysticism Probability in Microphysics: Einstein brought about in 1905 a tremendous revolution in physics when he dethroned Newton's concept of a universal static space and a time flowing uniformly everywhere - an absolute space and an absolute time in terms of which there could be a measurement of absolute motion. The principle... follows: "None but observable factors - that is, factors definable by means of physical processes, factors distinguishable by experimental operations - can be considered to be in causal dependence." Einstein showed that scientific apparatus, even if developed to the utmost perfection and given the most favourable circumstances, could never measure Newton's absolutes and he ruled that these absolutes,... scientists have found it impossible to regard them as physical. Millikan has the same thing to say on pages 267-69 of Electrons (+ and —), Protons, Photons, Neutrons, Positrons and Cosmic Rays. Einstein and Infeld write on pages 305 and 307 of The Evolution of Physics: "The waves provide only the mathematical means of answering questions of a statistical nature.... The only physical significance ...
... that it can be upheld; so he is changing. NIRODBARAN: Einstein seems to have said that cosmic religious feeling is an incitement to Science. SRI AUROBINDO: I see. But what does he mean by "cosmic religious feeling"? If Einstein could use such words, Meghnad Saha can't say that he is not a scientist. Or perhaps he will say that Einstein is only giving his personal views. NIRODBARAN: By the ...
... materialistic, as it should be, or material in any case. What remains to be seen is, what is this Matter? Closed or open? Darwin opened it, as did his contemporary Jules Verne. Max Planck, Heisenberg and Einstein opened it, as did their impressionist, fauvist or pointillist friends — Matter burst forth on all sides. Sri Aurobindo and Mother belong to that side. Some astrophysicists too. And why should it be... was ten years old when Darwin died in 1882; he had already left India for London to learn the lesson of Western materialism; Mother, his future companion, was four years old in Paris, and in Ulm, Einstein was three. Ever since Darwin we have been told something very serious too, but when this “serious” begins to resemble a prison, we become wary. For the prodigious evolutionary picture since the... hominid in a Neolithic glade started counting the stars and his sorrows. M other was born Mirra Alfassa in Paris in 1878, of an Egyptian mother and a Turkish father. She was a year older than Einstein, and a contemporary of Anatole France, with whom she shared a sense of gentle irony. It was the century of “positivism”; her father and mother were “all-out materialists,” he a banker and a first-rate ...
... ous action at a distance, and the blow was given not by modem but by classical physics. Surely Einstein has not played more strikingly than Newton a new St. Paul, crying: "Behold, I tell you a mystery!" Page 8 Absolute Space and Time In connection with the physics of Einstein and the Newtonian physics by which the nineteenth century of materialism swore, it is curious to... no physical operations, according to Einstein, which enable us to distinguish absolute space. As regards absolute time, Newton himself confessed that there may be no natural processes which enable us to measure it. We can never, in the nature of things, say whether we are dealing with absolute time or not. Both these entities therefore are described by Einstein as metaphysical, with no real place in... 'action at a distance', regarding it as Page 6 absurd." L. Bolton on page 144 of An Introduction to the Theory of Relativity stresses the same fact: "If the new point of view which Einstein invites us to adopt presents a difficulty, it is useful to remember that the Newtonian view presented no less difficulty to philosophers in his day. Their great objection was that it involved action ...
... If we tap on the same place twice Einstein would say we have not tapped on the same place, for the earth has moved 18 miles per second in the meantime. Sri Aurobindo : But the taps do not change the dimensions of the board ! only, you can say that a consideration of time is necessary to complete your measurements of space. Disciple : Einstein has introduced a fourth dimension of... very busy ? Sri Aurobindo : Not 'busy' in the human sense. They are eternally engaged in doing their work, – but not busy. 25-12-1939 (Evening) Disciple : According to Einstein there is no gravitation. Page 87 That is to say, there is no force of attraction exerted between objects. He says that what we call gravitation is due to curvature of space... is limited. Besides, how can you say that space is limited to Matter ? There is a non-material space beyond this material universe. A being can leave behind our material space. Disciple : Einstein began his contribution by proving that simultaneity of events, constancy of mass and length etc. are all relative and not absolute. If the same length is measured from a body moving with great velocity ...
... stuck, and we need real seers, and badly,” writes Lee Smolin, one of the founders of string theory who has become its severe critic. And he reminds us that “there is no scientist, not even Newton or Einstein, who was not wrong on a substantial number of issues they had strong views about. … There is a great tendency to think that the fundamental principles of physics, once discovered, are eternal, yet... everything – matter and spirit – to an Absolute that is unknowable, but whose existence could be deduced from the extraordinary aspects of the new physics.” 28 Towards the end of his life, Albert Einstein once said: “You probably think that I look back on the work of my life with quiet satisfaction. Seen from nearby, it is totally different. There is not a single concept of which I am convinced that... mysticism deals with all that, with the Whole.” 31 One of Wilber’s least known books is Quantum Questions , in which he examines the sources of the thought that created 20th century physics: Einstein, Eddington, Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrödinger, Pauli … some of whom he quotes extensively. “Everyone of the physicists in this volume was a mystic,” he writes. “They simply believed, to a man, that if ...
... whole scientific outlook, but something of the kind was art imperative need in order to save Science from inconsistencies that seemed to be inherent in it. The scientific outlook was vitiated, Einstein said, because we started from wrong premises; two assumptions mainly were responsible for the bankruptcy which befell latter-day Science. First, it was assumed that a push and pull—a force (a g... that acted upon isolated and independent particles strewn about; and secondly, they were strewn about in an independently existing time and Page 234 an independently existing space. Einstein has demonstrated, it seems, successfully that there is no Time and no Space actually, but times and spaces (this reminds one of a parallel conception in Sankhya and Patanjali), that time is not i... least distance). Space is not a plain surface, smooth and uniform, 1 The constancy of the velocity of light, it must be noted, is not altogether an objective fact: it is a supposition by which Einstein tried to explain certain anomalies in previous theories. It is really, as some have pointed out (e.g. Hans Reichenbach— Atom and Cosmos— p. 136), a mental formula, part of a built-in structure ...
... thinking: "Really, something has gone wrong with this poor chap's top floor." I believe he felt what Anatole France had felt when he had met Einstein and the latter had spoken of his theory of relativity. Anatole France afterwards reported: "Dr. Einstein told me many strange things. I listened attentively to him. But when he started to tell me that light is matter, my head began to reel and I said ...
... Aurobindo, mysticism, yoga, philosophy - both eastern and western - literature, especially his treatise on Bernard Shaw, Shakespeare and other English poets and authors, sociology, politics, Einstein, Teilhard de Chardin are all subjects in which he is completely at home. Moreover he made his presence strongly felt among the readers of Mother India through his erudite articles on Hinduism... Sri Aurobindo's words: "Adore and what you adore attempt to be." He adores Sri Aurobindo, so he faithfully follows in the Master's footsteps. In spite of reading one of his articles on Einstein I had always thought of him, quite mistakenly I am afraid, as an expert on only the so-called Arts subjects i.e. the humanities. But then came a day which brought home a new revelation to me ...
... something like: "Newton showed that all physical bodies attract one another. Einstein with his relativity theory provided the reason for it. He said that the attraction is due to the fact that all these bodies are relatives!" Don't you think I deserve the Nobel prize for this illuminating rapport 1 have made between Newton and Einstein? So far they have been set at loggerheads. (1.2.1986) The Upanishad's ...
... Theme: Innovative Practices in respect of Value-Oriented Education In the context of Value-Oriented Education, the Chairperson, Professor R.M. Kalra, quoted the great scientist Einstein, 'Don't ask for meaning of a word but look for its usage.' A sage philosopher said, 'Don't ask for values of a person but look for his action.' Generally there is a hiatus between what we say and... Nehru (iii) Materialistic terrestrial aim of life A Free Man's Worship by Bertrand Russell (iv) Scientific terrestrial aim of life The World as I See It by Einstein (v) Supra terrestrial aim of life Bible (vi) Supra-cosmic aim of life Dhammapada and Vivekacudamani by Samkaracharya *In the book, The Good Teacher and the Good ...
... let us proceed a little further. Admitted the universe is a physical substance (although essentially of the nature of light—admitted light is a physical substance, obeying the law of gravitation, as Einstein has demonstrated). Does it then mean that the physical universe is after all a dead inert insentient thing, that whatever the vagaries of the ultimate particles composing the universe, their structure... application, in its successful working out. All scientific discoveries in the beginning appear as inconveniences that upset the known and accepted order. Copernicus, Newton, Galileo, Kepler, Maxwell or Einstein in our day enunciated principles that were not obvious sense-given axioms. These are at the outset more or less postulates that have to be judged by their applicability. Creation as a movement ...
... strong inclination in the mind to view things as arranged according to that pattern. Einstein has suggested that the spherical scheme can serve as well or even better our observations. Riemann's non-Euclidean geometry has assumed momentous importance in contemporary scientific enquiry. It is through that scheme that Einstein proposes to find the equation that will subsume the largest number of actual and ...
... metaphysics? Will science do well to take into consideration the spiritual view of things or keep strictly on its own lines? Einstein does not decry metaphysics but asserts that science will show him the truth. How far is he right? To a friend Einstein said: "It is my inner conviction that the development of science itself seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for knowledge which ...
... the Allies can land their troops in Sweden. Sweden does, not seem to realise that it is its turn next to be swallowed up by Germany. After this, a quotation from Einstein given by Dilip was read to Sri Aurobindo, in which Einstein said that a cosmic religious feeling was a incitement to Science. SRI AUROBINDO: That doesn't come to much. All depends on what he means by religious feeling. It ...
... and inner law, the living truth escape you totally. You read Einstein, read over and over again his formulas and equations and even commit them to memory-learn by rote; but after a time, if you lose touch with them, they vanish from your mind or become very vague and misty and you have to start again. That is because you learnt Einstein simply as a lesson, whereas if you entered into the perceptions ...
... the Bhagavad Gita in translation. To us Sri Aurobindo personifies a unique synthesis. He was born in Calcutta on August 15, 1872, the year of Rimbaud's Illuminations , just a few years before Einstein; modern physics had already seen the light of day with Max Planck, and Jules Verne was busy probing the future. Yet, Queen Victoria was about to become Empress of India, and the conquest of Africa... would be no possibility of contact with it. If a single point of the universe were totally unconscious, the whole universe would be totally unconscious, because there cannot be two things. With Einstein we have learned – a great discovery indeed – that Matter and Energy are interchangeable: E=mc 2 ; Matter is condensed Energy. We must now discover experientially that this Energy, or Force, is ...
... were the call to his vocation and the occult instigation of his philosophy of rationalism. Mendeleyev’s fundamental insight of the periodic table of elements came also to him in a dream. Albert Einstein narrated: “The breakthrough came suddenly one day. I was sitting in a chair in my patent office in Bern. Suddenly the thought struck me: If a man falls freely, he does not feel his own weight. I was... terms of the universal laws of physics.” 47 What seems to have escaped ‘orthodox’ present-day biology, however, is that the physics it envies is that of the nineteenth century, and that since Einstein and especially since the birth of quantum mechanics physics has gone off in very different directions. “So we are now in the very strange position that whereas physicists are implying that, fundamentally... × Galileo Galilei is usually referred to as ‘Galileo’, his first name, which is quite exceptional. Nobody ever refers to Newton as ‘Isaac’ or to Einstein as ‘Albert’. × David Bohm and David Peat: Science, Order and Creativity , p. 142. ...
... career is the correspondence he had with fellow scholars, editors, writers, poets and laypersons. These include world-class personalities and international celebrities like Aldous Huxley, Albert Einstein, Kathleen Raine and Paul Brunton. But there are lesser-known people too. At times admirers and readers were drawn to him for instruction and insight. A spirit of deep engagement and empathy marks... several years ago, when he showed me at Pondicherry the yet unprinted manuscripts, which were then being privately circulated among a few lovers of poetry. 10 Sethna's correspondence with Einstein and Huxley also throws an interesting light on their encounters. In a paper entitled "Mysticism and Einstein's Relativity Physics" published in Sri Aurobindo Circle, Bombay, Sixth Number, 1950,... engagements, he holds out hope for the success of the venture: "I can only wish you all success in 11. Sri Aurobindo Circle, Bombay, Sixth Number, 1950, p. 54. 12. Letter from Einstein to K.D. Sethna, 15.8.1950. Sethna's Papers. Page xvii your venture. You will, of course, be a voice crying in the wilderness. But if a few individuals pay attention, something ...
... thought do not matter. If you take intellect in that sense, then you can say that intellect has different strata and Ford belongs to one stratum of intellect, Einstein to another—Ford has a practical and executive business intellect, Einstein a scientific discovering and theorising intellect. But Ford too in his own field theorises, invents, discovers. Yet would you call Ford an intellectual or a man... in rebirth (metempsychosis), for instance, not for any philosophic reason, but because it explains life as a school of experience in which one gathers more and more experience and develops by it. Einstein has on the other hand a great discovering scientific intellect, not like Marconi a powerful practical inventive intelligence for the application of scientific discovery. All men have of course an ...
... been missed and it seems such a long time. So they say time is relative. Once, if I remember right, Prof. Einstein was asked, by someone who was not very well acquainted with science, to give, in as simple a manner and as few words as possible, an explanation of his Theory of Relativity. Einstein paused, then said something to this effect: Two friends, a golden lad and a golden lass [Nirod-da comments:... unnoticed during their talk. It became dark. One of them suddenly realised the lapse of time: "Good Lord! We have spent such a long time together, but it seems as if we have met only for half an hour." So Einstein said with a smile, "That is relativity." Short or long, whichever way you take it, at least this lapse of one class relieved me of my headache. I had a good respite that restoted my vigour ...
... past. Leaving aside the examples of Newton, Kepler and Tycho Brahe, even in the world of to-day it is not rare to find more than one scientist who believes in God. In this respect Lodge, Eddington, Einstein and Planck are outstanding figures that require no introduction. It is generally said that a scientist may indeed be a God-believer, but not in the capacity of a scientist. The faculty by which he... knowledge. But how can science or the scientific methodology assert that it has alone found the clue to the essence and nature of knowledge and truth? The question can be asked whether the theism of Einstein or Planck is the ultimate consequence of their scientific intellect or a reflection of some other non-scientific faculty. A class of continental scientists says that the religious sentiment and the... level of genuine integral spirituality. Many philosophers must have had easily and naturally some realisation of this kind. The intuition of infinity in. the philosopher Spinoza and in the scientist Einstein is of the same quality and status – impersonal, abstract, a mathematical infinitude, an x as it were. The scientist has reached the acme of his specific faculty as a result of the sublimation of his ...
... "teaching" or one more "spirituality," but a real transforming Power.... Had a big ape of yore been told that this futile little vibration of a thought Page 152 was going to create an Einstein and upset the world, he would not have believed in this transforming Power. Now, it is another incomprehensible little cellular vibration that is striving to change the world. And this Agenda ... divine. It is also true, on the supramental plane that everything is equal in the Divine, a grain of sand or Alexander's exploits; but on the material plane, it is not true that the coolie and an Einstein are worth the same. It is true on the supramental plane that everything is one and fraternal, but it is completely false to believe, on the material plane, that the cleverness of a crook is equal... Yes, there is this "meanwhile." We are growing souls not equally evolved, but in each of us, we suppose, there is a common and equal elementary quality which is sincerity . One need not be an Einstein or a yogi to have this quality. If the capacity to correct one's errors and the will to see clearly and not to delude oneself — if this central quality is there in Auroville, the rest is easy — ...
... So with a little effort toward the future, we may find the formula for the new beauty. 4 She was there—was it by chance? In fact, we had not had such a profound revolution since 1789, and Einstein was eighteen when Mirra turned nineteen. Like the pointillists, Max Planck was about to discover that light did not move sensibly at all, but in “little parcels." Newton’s apple was beginning to... Mira Ismalun could ever have left. The Division Strange Mirra. Yet, all this did not quench her thirst. She was in quest of a more profound revolution than that of lines and colors, and Einstein or Planck would have finally interested her more than the Impressionist explosion, although everything is linked. A secret ferment had crept into Matter to shatter the old facade. In Bengal, Sri... stone, the sea, the sun—we think we are all that instead of thinking of ourselves as the one. 31 And this is where the whole mystery begins. The "unified field" without equations. In 1905, Einstein was formulating his first laws on the equivalence of Matter and Energy. × Entretiens ...
... terrestrial aim of life. Then, we have Bertrand Russel, his text of A free Man's Worship (materialistic terrestrial aim of life). We have a scientific terrestrial aim of life and we have a text from Einstein called The World as I see it. As far as the Supra-terrestrial is concerned, we have taken a text from the Bible, the text from the' Sermon on the Mount' and also from the Koran. And then for... 9.CASABLANCA—Felicia Hemans 10.SOCRATES 11.REMINISCENCES—Rabindra Nath Tagore 12.ALFRED NOBEL 13.THE HAPPY PRINCE—Oscar Wilde 14.SCIENTIFIC GENIUS OF THE ATOMIC AGE—ALBERT EINSTEIN: Bella Koral 15.KING SOLOMON 16.THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW 17.YUDHISHTHIRA 18.I'M GOING TO DANCE AGAIN 19.A DAYS WAIT 20.AN ENCOUNTER WITH A MAN-EATER—Jim Corbett ...
... proceed a little further. Admitted the universe is a physical substance (although essentially of the nature of light – admitted light is a physical substance, obeying the law of gravitation, as Einstein has demonstrated). Does it then mean that the physical universe is after all a. dead inert insentient thing, that whatever the vagaries of the ultimate particles composing the universe, their structure... application, in its successful working out. All scientific discoveries in the beginning appear as inconveniences that upset the known and accepted order. Copernicus, Newton, Galileo, Kepler, Maxwell or Einstein in our day enunciated principles that were not obvious sense-given axioms. These are at the outset more or less postulates that have to be judged by their applicability. Creation as a movement ...
... the living truth escape you totally. You read Einstein, read over and over again his formulas and Page 88 equations and even commit them to memory—learn by rote; but after a time, if you lose touch with them, they vanish from your mind or become very vague and misty and you have to start again. That is because you learnt Einstein simply as a lesson, whereas if you entered into ...
... chosen monster, or find the secret of the ages at last? The East and the West are dying. It is not a question of adding up these excellent quantities and producing some cocktail with the Veda + Einstein, nor is an archaeopteryx a sudden addition of two reptiles, but something else, another quantity or a mutation of the same, eternal quantity, which Page 271 we do not yet know and which... after Mahatma Gandhi — and an “exceptional woman” who had left behind them some new Gospel or some philosophy for those who had the time. Go try and make the general Anthropoids understand that Einstein or Mrs Curie could have had some effect on Matter! So nobody truly understands what is at stake. But this tribe, in the midst of which Sri Aurobindo and Mother had worked in order to change the ...
... turns, but always unpredictable. In December 1939, for example, on two successive days, the discussion turned on Einstein and Gravitation, matter and energy, and on Time as the fourth dimension. Some months later, on 17 September 1940, the curvature of space as visualized by Einstein came up again in the course of the discussion. When on 15 January 1939 there was a reference to Spengler's The Decline ...
... burden of pain and Page 17 error. What seemed such a futile and vain exercise in terms of simian efficiency has become the cornerstone of our towering mental edifice; everything, even Einstein, was contained in that simple and totally superfluous exercise. And at the edge of another forest, made of concrete and titanium, we may be standing before an identical, even more stupendous mystery... which is here at each instant. There is a great blossoming gradually stripping its marvel, petal by petal. And each new look changes our world and all the surface laws as drastically as the laws of Einstein have Page 68 changed Newton's world. To see differently is to be able to do differently. That third level is the new consciousness. And it cancels neither the rose nor the microscope ...
... highly mental was more natural to her than everything else; perhaps because equations tend toward the Simple. Einstein was a great simplifier who, almost mathematically, strove to touch the oneness of the universe behind the enormous veil of phenomenal complications. Had he known her, Einstein would have understood Mother very well. Perhaps he would have put Mother into an equation ... and the universe ...
... ess"—is like? NO, SIR . How can you have a practical knowledge of it by knowing who has it? You might just as well expect to have a practical knowledge of high mathematics by knowing that Einstein is a great mathematician. Queer ideas you have! Are they A? B? C? D? E? F?—but he can't be for he is a Brahma himself, so keeps himself secluded like Him, no? ??????? 18 July 1937 "Advanced ...
... personally I have become superior to it and am travelling forward like a flash of lightning, that is to say, zigzag, but fairly fast. Now I have got the hang of the whole hanged thing—like a very Einstein I have got the mathematical formula of the whole affair (unintelligible as in his case to anybody but myself) and am working it out figure by figure. As for people, no! they are not floating in ...
... is no use asking him to try what is beyond his province. Page 396 The Isha Upanishad passage 2 is of course a much larger statement of the nature of universal existence than the Einstein theory which is confined to the physical universe. You can deduce too a much larger law of relativity from the statement in the verse. What it means from this point of view—for it contains much more ...
... parties concerned in World War II. In the minds of Truman and company the question was of degree and not of kind: the atom bomb seemed as legitimate as any other deadly weapon of modern war. When Einstein wrote his letter to Roosevelt and even after the test at Alamogordo this new weapon was considered to be no more than an ultra-efficient explosive. Hence the question of the morality of the American ...
... intervening object. But they seemed to agree roughly with our experience of the man-sized world and with the familiar deliverance of our senses: they thus acquired a spurious lucidity. With the advent of Einstein this lucidity disappeared: a "curved" non-euclidian four-dimensional continuum of fused space and time is "mist and clouds" with quite a vengeance. So too is the world or quanta in which we are asked ...
... In the twentieth century, the Michelson-Morley experiment and Einstein's relativity theory discredited the ether as a spacefilling medium and left us with empty space. But this space, according to Einstein, is capable of structure and in that sense cannot be an insubstantial void and may be called "ether". The poetic imagination down the ages has also identified ether and space and given the latter ...
... gain a divine desirelessness that is a plenitude of peace, an illimitable freedom which to the ordinary man he could describe as only a universal Zero. The reflective adult could never be even an Einstein rejecting the evident world as the basis of the ultimate theory of physics and constructing by what he calls an intuitive act a four-dimensional continuum of fused time and space as the foundation ...
... Amal-Kiran - Poet and Critic ( A letter from Albert Einstein) Page 34 ( An Award ) Page 35 ( A letter from Kathleen Raine) December 31st, 1993. Dear Friend, What a happiness to hear news of you after so long.... I have been reading your poems — what a ...
... your calm heartbeat 659 Earth's lamp is lit on the Master's table, 608 Earth's roof is heaven's floor 284 Edging earth's beauty shadow-wise. 447 Einstein of the super-science of the soul, 564 Encliffed above the day's sky-fall, 43 Enhaloed love, why flowerest thou to bless 431 Eternal rest, the Almighty's deepest ...
... beyond the range of matter and even of mental phenomena. In Science the marvellous bedrock of physical events is reached. The secret basis of all existence is not yet touched. Even the great scientist Einstein has acknowledged. “As far as the laws of Mathematics refer to reality, things are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not completely refer to reality”. ...
... remain do not cast serious suspicions on it,” wrote Kitty Ferguson in 1994. 7 In 1933, however, the universe was still assumed to be eternal and unchanging, and the Big Bang model, endorsed by Einstein, blatant nonsense. Around 1950 the controversy raged between Hoyle, Bondi and Gold’s Steady State model of the universe and the theory of the explosion at the beginning of time. Sri Aurobindo finished ...
... truth. And there was much more of the same alloy, e.g. the world ice theory, the theory of the hollow earth, and the official proclamation of an Aryan science in opposition to the Jewish science of Einstein and similar scatterbrains – not to forget the “scientific” murderous race theories. The political, social and cultural fantasies of Hitler and his Nazis were bizarre, but the underlying fact, the ...
... This will lead straight to the official proclamation by the Nazis, Nobel Prize winners among them, of a true “German science” as opposed to a false “Jewish science” of which the world-famous Albert Einstein was the epitome. That this kind of irrationalities, or plain idiocies, did not prevent German engineers to produce an astonishing range of new inventions shows that the engineer does not need an ...
... science has come to realise that it cannot, in the very nature of things, offer any essential knowledge about the reality. Although it started with the ambition to dig 20.Charles Nordmann, Einstein et L'Univers. 21.Thomas Greenwood, Valeur Explicative des Math é matiques. Page 47 "...into Matter's hard concealing soil, To unearth the processes of all things done ...
... × In a letter dated August 16, 1935, Sri Aurobindo writes: "Now I have got the hang of the whole hanged thing—like a very Einstein I have got the mathematical formula of the whole affair (unintelligible as in his own case to anybody but myself) and am working it out figure by figure." ...
... We cannot help thinking of Sri Aurobindo's "mathematical formula": "Now," he wrote on 16 August 1935, "I have got the hang of the whole hanged thing—like a very Einstein I have got the mathematical formula of the whole affair (unintelligible as in his case to anybody but myself) and am working it out figure by figure." Mother uses almost the same words. ...
... understand something of it many years later. Perhaps I can give you a very short summary and put you among the wise. Newton said that all physical bodies attract one another, but he did not know why. Einstein came along and said: "They attract one another because they are all relatives." That is the theory of relativity, (laughter) Well, while I was on the way to finding this out, I started getting a ...
... methods, the nature of the Ultimate Reality. During the last hundred years, science has crossed rapidly several horizons, and we are now in the presence of a situation where not only Newton, but even Einstein stands over-passed in many ways. When we study the findings of recent physicists like Louise de Broglie, Schrodinger, David Bohm and others, we feel in the presence of a Great Shift and new paradigm ...
... Delhi, 1983. Chaubey, Braj Bhihari, Treatment of Nature in RigVeda, Vedic Sahitya Sadan, Hoshiarpur, 1970. Christainity in World History, Scribner, New York, 1964. dark, Ronald W., Einstein, World Publishing, New York, 1971. Cornforth, M., Dialectical Materialism, International Publishers, New York, 1971. Cultural Heritage of India, The, Volumes I & II, Ramakrishna Mission ...
... universal Reality. V During the last hundred years, science has crossed rapidly several horizons, and we are now in the presence of a situation where not only Newton, but even Einstein stands over-passed in many ways. When we study the finding of recent physicists like Louise de Broglie, Schrodinger, David Bohm and others, we feel in the presence of a Great Shift and new ...
... between ourselves and the earth and men....³ In 1935, there was a significant breakthrough, and Sri Aurobindo wrote in a letter: Now I have got the hang of the whole hanged thing—like a very Einstein I have got the mathematical formula of the whole affair (unintelligible as in his own case to anybody but myself) and am working it out figure by figure. 4 ________________________________________ ...
... "national system". Even now, the phrase Page 16 "national system" connotes, to many, a system of the revival of the past and lessons in Chanakya and Bhaskaracharya in place of Newton and Einstein, in place of Mill and Rawls. In this sense the idea of national system comes to be rightly rejected. What is truly national? The true answer lies in the discovery and renascent formulation of the ...
... but personally I have become superior to it and am travelling forward like a flash of lightning, that is to say zigzag but fairly fast. Now I have got the hang of the whole hanged thing—like a very Einstein I have got the mathematical formula of the whole affair (unintelligible as in his case to anybody but myself) and am working it out figure by figure. As for people, no! they are not floating in ...
... should you have any latent medico in you to diagnose diseases? Why not? I can begin to write poetry only if I have a poet either latent or suddenly introduced into me. I can lay down the law to Einstein only if I have a scientist similarly lodged inside. I thought your Yogic vision is something like X-ray, which when applied, gets the condition on the plate; or the vision directly penetrating ...
... is, as we all know, three-dimensional; it has a length, a breadth and a depth. In fact every material object is material because it has these three dimensions. That is what we knew till now. But Einstein has added another dimension to complete the picture of material reality. He says, time is the fourth dimension. For along with space, time also is to be taken into consideration for fixing or situating ...
... have to reach our perception through this intermediary. And its movement, its velocity too is the standard of measure for all movements: the velocity is constant and nothing can exceed it (that is Einstein). There is an inner light too. The virtues of the outer light only translate something of the nature of the inner light. You cannot prove the existence of light, inner or outer; it exists ...
... the universe into a mass of independent constituents each acting for itself No doubt there is one Force still (if magnetism and electricity can be reduced to one formula as is sought to be done by Einstein), but it is a discontinuous unity in its manifestation at least. Science seems to be coming away from a materialistic Adwaita towards a restatement of the Sankhya idea." – SRI AUROBINDO . ...
... questioning Einstein's theory. He stands for Newton. SRI AUROBINDO: Einstein's theory seems to me fantastic. (At this time some dogs were barking outside.) There, they are protesting against Einstein! ...
... practical knowledge of it! He replied, "How can you have a practical knowledge of it by knowing who has it? You might just as well expect to have a practical knowledge of high mathematics by knowing that Einstein is a great mathematician." His written works leave us in no doubt about the heights of consciousness to which he soared, the depths he has explored and his constant status of consciousness. But how ...
... Confucius, 196 Czardom, 338 DANTE, 228,284,287, 388 – The Divine Comedy, 388 Darshanas, 297 David-Neele, Alexandra, 142, 173 Diti, 287 Durga, 249 Duryodhana, 206 EINSTEIN, 222, 344, 374, 376 Elizabeth, 196 England, 117, 196 Esau, 121 Europe, 297, 383 FAR EAST, THE, 54 Faust, 397 France, 78, 141 GANGES, THE, 85n George VI, 117 Gita ...
... indeed. And Mirra was there. Strangely enough, Mirra always found herself at the crossroads—just as She found herself at the crossroads of the first explosion of appearances (Max Planck, 1900, Einstein, 1905), which was curiously linked to the Impressionists’ explosion of color—as if all were not closely bound together! One and the same seed is sown at a given time, and it bursts open everywhere ...
... points as much as itself. And how are we to understand this? Undoubtedly, it is not to be understood but experienced. In any case, the scientists of Matter would do well to note the fact. Certainly Einstein would have understood Sri Aurobindo's "mathematical formula" very well and Mother's stammered nonformulas, as She bumped into things right and left in her incomprehensible forest that went round and ...
... Force-Consciousness, existed in each atom and each particle. That Consciousness or Power has always circulated freely through Matter⎯in fact, it is the very constituent of Matter, the Energy that Einstein put in an equation (but what was not formulated is the consciousness of that Energy). From the small ball of gelatine to the hominid, with every species growing in evolution that Power concretized ...
... other means of communicating—another earth. And ultimately, another Matter. The way out of the old genetic program. Even the higher apes, when they were stirring up the first idea that would make an Einstein, had not experienced such a thrilling transition. But whether we like it or not, we are right in it, in the middle of the Transition. It is the only important Fact since the Stone Age. Will we ...
... informs every form—this pinhead or that ocean, and the tender little leaf quivering in the wind —and what reconciles everything within its innumerable Oneness. One very small parameter was missing for Einstein to succeed with his unified field theory. Perhaps a little girl will bring us this simple piece of data. So it is not a question of extraordinary visions in the dubious style of psychics, though ...
... remarkable." Indeed the Jewish race has produced Page 94 not only prophets like Elijah or philosophers like Spinoza (1632-77), but also the greatest of our modern scientists, Albert Einstein (1879-1955), born one year after Mirra. Besides, my acquaintances of that race are all people of refinement. Like the Hindu Puranas, the old Hebrew books such as the Talmud are full of parables ...
... considered necessary for our thought to believe in a space and a time uniform throughout the universe and in a rate of motion which can be called absolute in relation to a perfectly static frame. Einstein showed that in very principle and not only in practice such concepts were for ever removed from observational verification. The constitution of the world put them beyond observation and, since physics ...
... The Secret Splendour Sri Aurobindo: 15.8.1872-5.12.1950 Einstein of the super-science of he soul, He found the Immutable's space of trance a field Grooved with almighty thought- transcending arcs— Figures of a single Truth bent everywhere On linking the ultimate Suns to our mortal sod.... A rapt geometer in the deepmost heart ...
... highest intelligence are bound to be born in the coming decades. Geniuses? If one wishes, although the term refers to the notion of exceptional individuals—Plato, Leonardo da Vinci, Mozart, Napoleon, Einstein—in whom the collective unconscious culminates, without the individual members of the collective being able to equal them. In this case, on the other hand, the men of a new kind will be the prototypes ...
... the feel of "form", the devotion to truth", the faith in the "reason" and "harmony" embodied in the universe and the thrill to its vast "comprehensibility". Then there is the part played by what Einstein does not hesitate to characterise as "intuition". Would it be right to say that the master thinkers in physics are being "primitive" Page 203 in a derogatory sense when, by being ...
... like her. Time and Meaning "What is time?" asked St. Augustine, the famous Christian philosopher, and was puzzled. Even today, after the scientific inquiries into time by Newton and Einstein, there is no final word on it. As for Augustine's bewilderment it was a simple well-constructed thought. He knew what time was, he asserted, but if someone were to ask what it is, then he would ...
... enough; but not as vast as Savitri' s. Not Milton's fault perhaps; because in age in which he lived he could not but be bound to Christian theology; Copernicus was only just known and Darwin and Einstein were yet to come. Then, despite lines of vision like: About him all the Sanctities of Heaven Stood thick as stars and from his sight received Beatitude past utterance. 17 Milton ...
... groups were owned by Jews, and, to a very considerable extent, the spectacular culture of Berlin in the 1920’s; the culture dominated by personalities like Max Reinhardt and Bruno Walter and Albert Einstein, was a Jewish culture. “To the Jews, this was naturally a matter of pride, and more than one Jewish chronicler has pointed out that one quarter of all the Nobel Prizes won by Germans in the first ...
... It is erroneous to associate evolution exclusively with Charles Darwin, although proclamations that “we live in the age of Charles Darwin” and comparisons of Darwin with Copernicus, Newton or Einstein are rife in the popularization of science as divulged by the media. To avoid being controversial they lean heavily on the tenets of scientific materialism, back up this official science with their ...
... suddenly came the breakthrough! On 16 August 1935 (the day following his birthday) we read: ‘I am travelling forward like a flash of lightning, that is to say zigzag but fairly fast … Like a very Einstein I have got the mathematical formula of the whole affair (unintelligible as in his case to anybody but myself) and I am working it out figure by figure.’ A mysterious but apparently very important ...
... biology relied on physics as its nethermost basis, the background mentality in the two fields was quite dissimilar, physics having its tradition of the great “mystics” (Galileo, Kepler, Newton, and the Einstein-Bohr generation), biology convinced of its metaphysical truths within a chitin shell of dogmatism, possibly secreted because of sheer vulnerability. Because of the Second World War science’s centre ...
... assumed that it had reached the top of the hill of knowledge, striking up hymns of triumph. But looking back into the records of its errors, feuds and blind-alleys, one learns that even a Newton and an Einstein could be mistaken – actually could not but be mistaken – and that science, by way of speaking, keeps hitting its head against the wall of Truth or Reality. What, then, about our world of cars, airplanes ...
... This happened in literature (Proust, Rimbaud, Mallarmé), philosophy (Nietzsche and Bergson), psychology (Freud and Jung), biology (Darwin, Pasteur) and physical science (the Curies, Planck, Lorentz, Einstein). The incredible twentieth century, the greatest show in all history, was being prepared. And Impressionism – thanks to the passion for perceptual honesty in that group of diverse characters, who ...
... but personally I have become superior to it and am traveling forward like a flash of lightning, that is to say zigzag but fairly fast. Now I have got the hang of the whole hanged thing—like a very Einstein I have got the mathematical formula of the whole affair (unintelligible as in his case to anybody but myself) and am working it out figure by figure." 116. "Silence, Light, Power, Ananda, these ...
... bulletin arrived from the avataric front: ‘[I] am travelling forward like a flash of lightning, that is to say zigzag but fairly fast. Now I have got the hang of the whole hanged thing – like a very Einstein I have got the mathematical formula of the whole affair (unintelligible as in his case to anybody but myself) and am working it out figure by figure.’ This important milestone in his Yoga was reached ...
... achievement: Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!" and there was light. In our own day a poet has added: But not for long. The Devil shouting, "Ho, Let Einstein be!" restored the status quo. Science in our day has become full of puzzling questions. Einstein's relativity theory and the quantum theory developed by Bohr and Heisenberg have made the physical ...
... you go at me hammer and tongs because I used the word "survive" about myself? At my age it is natural that now and then the idea of the great transition should occur. As I once before told you, Einstein felt himself to be so much a part of the universal flow that he had no particular self-regard in the face of possible death: I feel utterly a part of Sri Aurobindo's world-vision and world-work ...
... response. On the contrary, he wrote to Roger that whatever he said was right—the Urn would remain as it was, ac-cording to the Mother's Vision. How untrue! Here is an apt quotation from Albert Einstein: Only two things are infinite: the Universe and human stupidity. And I am not sure about the former. Sri Aurobindo's words are true: An idiot hour destroys what centuries made . There ...
... its intellectual aspects. It was therefore a supreme intellectual, Leonardo da Vinci, who took up again the work and summarised in himself the seeds of modern Europe. 29 July 1937 Leonardo and Einstein I do not know if by chance Einstein's theory of relativity may also be found in one of the yet undeciphered books of Leonardo. Page 525 Not likely. The age of art and science which ...
... effort, the height to which they have arrived, the consciousness with which they have contact or into which they enter. Do not scientists go sometimes beyond the mental plane? It is said that Einstein found his theory of relativity not through any process of reasoning, but through some kind of sudden inspiration. Has that inspiration anything to do with the Supermind? Page 93 The scientist ...
... been accustomed to believe—but a four-dimensional system, with three coordinates of space and one of time, DEPENDENT UPON THE PHYSICAL PHENOMENA DEVELOPING THEREIN. Such is 'Riemann's Space,' used by Einstein in his General Theory of Relativity. Thus, a trajectory—i.e., in principle, a fixed distance, a quantity of space to be traversed-is a function of the time taken to traverse it: there is no straight ...
... ic wave while remaining within the narrow confines of a human body? In being THAT, it might be said, Mother thus resolves the famous question of the "unified-field theory," the theory to which Einstein devoted the last years of his life in vain, that would describe the movements of both planets and atoms in a single mathematical equation. Mother's body-consciousness is one with the movement of ...
... e and gave birth to the world. To "become the tapas of things" is to uncover in one's own material, bodily substance that same formidable, supramental seat of energy (what physicists, following Einstein, call atomic energy: E = mc2), the energy that animates the stone and the bird and the universe—for then like can act upon like. Mother was reaching that point. ...
... it for the first time; it can also be a dreadful, frightening and at the same time marvellous experience..." Then his description of the "pre-cellular level": "Your nervous cells become aware, as Einstein did, that all matter, all structure is nothing but pulsating energy. Your body and the world around you dissolve into a sparkling lattice of white waves. You have penetrated matter's intimate structure ...
... presence of matter. Force has gone; simple location has gone; absolute motion has gone; but what still remains are bodies moving through space-time. The Special Theory of Relativity, however, brought Einstein to the conclusion that mass and energy were not essentially different; that energy is equivalent to mass and mass represents energy, and that there is a simple quantitative relation between them ...
... One of the two is Bose and the other is Kothari. He further says that Bose pointed out some mistake in Einstein's thinking; his corrections have been accepted and scientists now speak of the Bose-Einstein statistics. SRI AUROBINDO: I see. That is very creditable for India. PURANI: What about Suleman? NIRODBARAN: Sen says Suleman also pointed out some mistakes. PURANI: No, Suleman refutes ...
... [Sri Aurobindo:] NO, SIR. How can you have a practical knowledge of it by knowing who has it ? You might just as well expect to have a practical knowledge of high mathematics by knowing that Einstein is a great mathematician. Queer ideas you have! (Laughter) Well, I'd put my question somewhat badly, without thinking much. As a matter of fact, I meant the same thing that Arjuna ...
... eye. Matter, Science says today, is energy and forms of matter, objects, are various vibrations of this one energy. What is this energy? According to science, it is electrical, radiant, ethereal (Einstein replaces "ether" by "field") – biological science would venture to call it life energy. You have only to move one step farther and arrive at the greater Page 334 and deeper generalisation ...
... Dirac, 318 Drona, 80 Du Noiiy, Lecomte, 260 Duryadhona, 80 EDDINGTON, 313-14, 317-19, 326, 332 Egypt, 106, 119, 127, 177n., 219, 223, 236, 238-41 Einstein, 139, 304, 308, 314-16, 325, 334, 401 Eliot, T. S., 115, 192-3, 195 -The Waste Land, 193n Encyclopaedists, the, 16 Engels, 128 England, 145,210,245 Equator ...
... personally I have become superior to it and am travelling forward like a flash of lightning, that is to say zigzag but fairly fast. Now I have got the hang of the whole hanged thing - like a very Einstein I have got the mathematical formula of the whole affair (unintelligible as in his case to anybody but myself) and am working it out figure by figure. As for people, no! they are not floating ...
... Swami Vivekananda can convince that search for God is not submission to dogma but a relentless process of questioning and of finding. Passages from the writings of great scientists such as those of Einstein and others can open up in the students' vision the perception of the strangeness and the wonder of the world and of the dimensions, which are unimaginable. The spirit of inquiry that we find in writings ...
... I am all at a loss in higher maths. But I do not come out to say that the higher here is the lowest possible. It is one of my perennial regrets that I cannot follow technically the steps by which Einstein worked out his relativity theory. You are a veritable Ramanujan compared to a Page 13 cipher like me in this field, but I turn aspiring eyes towards your theme of Circles and Squares ...
... Colorado 80302, U.S.A. Page 121 David Bohm and his concepts of the "implicate and explicate orders," and of the "holoverse" David Bohm was an associate of Einstein and later Professor of Theoretical Physics at Birbeck College of the University of London. He is regarded as one of the pre-eminent theoretical physicists of the 20th century. Bohm maintains ...
... achievements.' This photograph is from the famous 5th Solvay Conference in Belgium (October 1927), which brought together the greatest minds of the last century including Einstein, Curie, Schroedinger, Bohr, Heisenberg, Planck, Dirac, Pauli, Lorentz, Born, etc. The majority of the twenty-nine attendees are Nobel Prize winners. The conference was dedicated ...
... consciousness"—is like? NO, SIR. How can you have a practical knowledge of it by knowing who has it? You might just as well expect to have a practical knowledge of high mathematics by knowing that Einstein is a great mathematician. Queer ideas you have! Are they Anilbaran? Pavitra? Datta? Dyuman? Nolini? Radhanand, but he can't be for he is Brahma himself, so keeps himself secluded like him, no ...
... -"Annvnciation", 81n -"The Litanie", 80n -The Progress qf the Soule, 80n Douve,217 Dryden, 85 Duncan, 170 Durga,180 ECKHART, 131 Edgar, 171-3 Egypt, 298 Einstein, 300 Eiseley, Loren, 295n - The Immense Journey, 295n Eliot, T. S., 88, 140-4, 147-8, 196, 205 -"Burnt Norton", 142n., 144n., 146-7n -"East Coker", 14On., 145n -"Little ...
... light. The new equation: M=mc ∞ that is, Matter is transformed into spiritualised energy (not merely mechanical energy as in Einstein) when its mass is multiplied by consciousness raised to the power of infinity. II Buddha's equation: D°=0 ...
... even in the realm of science we find in a more or less degree an evidence of this power; for at the root of all creation this power is bound to exist. In the' brain of all discoverers from Galileo to Einstein has played the high light of a supersensuous, supra-intellectual vision. All their achievements, at any rate all the achievements of Jagadish Chandra, show how this vision has been brought down into ...
... Debussy, 427 Devas, 253 Dhammapada , the, 9n., 159 Dionysus, 47 Dirghatamas, 44 Page 431 Diti,46 Durga, 98 EGYPT, 70, 133, 192, 199-200,419 Einstein, 274 England, 198 Esau, 397 Eucharist, 130 Europe, 272, 421 FRANCE, 96, 116, 198-9,323-4,355,418 France, Anatole, 64 Franck, Cesar, 393, 424 GANDHARVA,47 Ganges, 383 ...
... world is, as we all know, three-dimensional; it has a length, a breadth and a depth. In fact every material object is material because it has these three dimensions. That is what we knew till now. But Einstein has added another dimension to complete the picture of material reality. He says, time is the fourth dimension. For along with space, time also is to be taken into consideration for fixing or situating ...
... mass is multiplied by the square of the velocity of light. The new equation: M=mc°° that is, Matter is transformed into spiritualised energy (not merely mechanical energy as in Einstein) when its mass is multiplied by consciousness raised to the power of infinity. II Buddha's equation: D°=O that is, Desire raised to the power zero is zero=Nirvana. Shankara's ...
... revelations" that overwhelm by their un-expected appearance? Newton did not arrive at his Law of Gravitation in the trail of a logical argument from given premises towards unforeseen conclusions. Nor did Einstein discover his version of the Law in any syllogistic way either. The fact seems to be more often true that the unknown reveals itself all on a sudden and is not reached through a continuous series of ...
... but the approximation remains. For example, the bending of a ray of light from a star passing by the solar sphere is a subject for interesting calculation: between the figure as given by the Einstein equation and the actual measurement there is a difference, although slight, yet a difference. Such differences are usually explained by some kind of intervention and if that intervention does not ...
... form a molecule and then separate, show a peculiar non-local relationship, which can best be described as a non-causal connection of elements that are far apart (as demonstrated in the experiment of Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen). These three key features of quantum theory, according to Bohm, clearly show the inadequacy of mechanistic notion. Thus, if all actions are in the form of discrete quanta ...
... without arriving at a proper assessment of the role Leonardo da Vinci played in it? or, the scientific revolution of the modern times without a correct estimate of the part played in it by Newton and Einstein? We have, therefore, set out to study the history of the renaissance (not the freedom movement only) in India by ascertaining, on the solid basis of historical data and con- temporary evidence ...
... the possibility of conceiving a more perfect being than itself. If you tell the ape that not only is such a being possible, but that it itself would undergo such a transformation that from it an Einstein could evolve it would not believe it possible. That would be too much for it to believe. Just the same thing is happening to human reason, human mind, human outer senses and outer knowledge when ...
... an eye in Nothingness, All lurking things were torn out of their veils And held up in his vision's sun-white blaze." Sāvitrī, Book II, Canto 5. Even relativity of Einstein and De Sitter's researches find an echo in "parent of an expanding universe", (Book II, Canto 5.) and while dealing with the formation of Matter the reader will have to have some familiarity with ...
... Aurobindo): But afterwards all the mud arose and it stopped.... As it is, there is the Revolt of the Subconscient. 61 August 1935 Now I have got the hang of the whole hanged thing—like a very Einstein I have got the mathematical formula of the whole affair (unintelligible as in his own case to anybody but myself) and am working it out figure by figure. 62 August 1935 As for people (the ...
... sure, one can purify one's consciousness), but the total conquest, the material transformation, certainly depends to a great extent on some degree of progress in the collectivity. 11 What would Einstein do, all alone in the midst of flint polishers? He could not have existed, that is all, he would have been asphyxiated by the psychological climate. Mother lived her last years in an agonizing state ...
... with Mirra. We are actually fortunate to find in Mirra an experimenter who is not perverted by the sum of her past experiences and everything that has been woven around them—a kind of spontaneous Einstein free from all the possibilities or impossibilities of Newtonian mechanics, Sanskrit grammar and initiatory treatises. We might call her a materialist of the Spirit. We could agree with Mathilde ...
... clear drops filter in through the meshes of the web, they can invisibly revolutionize the world more than all the bombs piled up in all our charming countries and more than all the equations of Einstein—because there is only one single body and it is the infallible equation of the future. Will there be three of them? Three men. It would be interesting to see. Auroville is a great adventure ...
... other side. And I have the feeling this applies to every apparently successful life. Take the great industrialist Tata or the great intellectual Andre Malraux, or any "great" man – I think even Einstein, at the end of his life, came up against a wall. We are all up against a wall. Whether Marxist, Christian, Hindu or Chinese, we all end up against a wall. So each person has to fight in his ...
... Light. Religion is coming again to the forefront of human thought, and even theology is shed- ding off its habitual narrowness to embrace the wider horizons of human aspiration. Keyserling, Eddington, Einstein, Jung and P. Sorokin—all now meet on a common platform, not always easy to define yet perceptible on an intuitive approach, a platform of many-aspected idealism, heralding the advent of an age of ...
... of the subject. Their new 1 Nolini Sen (1894-1962). Meghnad Saha (6.10.1893 - 16.2.1956), a physicist. Satyendra Nath Bose (1.1.1894 - 4.2.1974) is well known for his Bose-Einstein statistics. He was also vice-chancellor of Tagore's Visvabharati at Santiniketan for two years. Page 267 teacher was my brother Abhay. He was what you would call a normal bright ...
... Lüshun). August 3 — British forces under Younghusband, sent by Lord Curzon, reach Lhasa in Tibet. December - Sri Aurobindo attends the Bombay session of the Con- gress. 1905 - Einstein sets forth the special theory of Relativity and postulates the existence of the photon. - Sri Aurobindo writes Bhawani Mandir. -Mother meets Max Theon. January — Sri Aurobindo becomes ...
... But what are they going to do with them? PURANI: The cost of making anything will be prohibitive, though the method of breaking the atom by means of cyclotrons is very easy. Raman has supported Einstein's theory about the unity of matter and energy. SRI AUROBINDO: Has anybody cast doubt on it? PURANI: No. SRI AUROBINDO: But what is energy? PURANI: Modern scientists have stopped asking ...
... thinking? What are you thinking?" can be called poetry! SRI AUROBINDO: And striking rhythm! He admits people read poetry. That is good, he says, for then poetry becomes more precious. It is like Einstein's theory; only five or six people understand it. PURANI: And they also differ among themselves. EVENING PURANI: Westerners say that ancient Indian art is religious and spiritual. SRI AUROBINDO: ...
... a long time. I have to go over all the old ground. NIRODBARAN: How? SRI AUROBINDO: Every time I find more and more imperfections. NIRODBARAN: Jatin Bal is preparing some notes for you on Einstein's relativity. This led to a talk on relativity between Sri Aurobindo and Purani who brought in Riemann's name as a famous mathematician. SRI AUROBINDO: Euclid was bad enough. When Riemann came ...
... In the equations of Einstein's Theory of Relativity, quantities as 'immutable' as the mass of a body, the frequency of a vibration, or the time separating two events, are linked to the speed of the system where the physical event takes place. Recent experiments in outer space have allowed the validity of Einstein's equations to be verified. Thus a clock on a satellite ...
... algebraic formula or an equation in Tensor Calculus the mysterious and manifold workings in four-dimensional Space-Time; and they can psycho-analyse the Cosmic-self itself! These are the symbol Einsteins, Plancks, Rutherfords and Freuds who draw Necessity's logarithmic tables and derive "the calculus of Destiny". Their massive insight— and their monumental effrontery! All was coerced ...
... particles in the atom. What are they going to do with them? Disciple : The cost of producing them will be prohibitive. Though the method of breaking up by Cyclotron is cheap. Raman has supported Einstein's theory about unity of matter and energy. Sri Aurobindo : Has anybody doubted it? Disciple : No. Sri Aurobindo : But what is energy? Page 248 Disciple ...
... political comments on the burning questions of the day as the editor of Mother India, his researches into Vedic history, Panini's age and historicity, archaeological pre- history and even Einstein's Theory of Relativity prove beyond doubt his breadth of mind and poise, his creative energy and painstaking research in whatever he deals with. Amal Kiran (K.D. Sethna), for all his various ...
... . The hint for a scientific hypothesis can come from anywhere. All scientists, as Karl Popper has demonstrated, begin with a "hunch", an "intuition": the very method of theoretical science, as Einstein's General Theory of Relativity has exemplified, proceeds by way of a "free creation", an imaginative leap. Such a point de depart makes no odds to the scientific character of an inquiry, provided ...
... × Mother's japa. × Ever since Einstein's Theory of Relativity, we have known that such an experience of time's relative nature is "physically" feasible. We need only consider the example of time aboard a spaceship approaching the speed ...
... Then Lord Howe gave up, because British prestige would be injured if he changed the tune of the address. Thus the war was allowed to continue for many more miserable months, proving the truth of Einstein's remark at a later date: "There are only two things that are limitless - the universe and human stupidity." * Your mention of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony brings back to me the feeling ...
... agents of evolution. In the history of science it is a common phenomenon that an important discovery is at once supposed to be determinant of everything else. (Examples are Newton’s gravitation and Einstein’s relativity.) This happened again when the structure of the DNA molecule, the double helix, was found out. With this discovery started the enormous expansion of microbiology which became the leading... thought, My God, this is the truth, and everybody should know this truth! He became something like a preacher.” 62 In The Devil’s Chaplain, Dawkins did indeed declare: “Darwin’s achievement, like Einstein’s, is universal and timeless,” and we have already expressed the opinion that behind his scientific formation the character can be sensed of an enthusiast who might turn into a zealot. “For Dawkins ...
... at this rate that the science of heredity is torn by conflicting "fantasies" or that Newton's "fantasies" about space and gravitational effect on space are at this day in danger of being upset by Einstein's "fantasies" in the same field. It is a minor matter that Mr. Archer happens to be wrong in his idea of Buddha's intuition when he says that he would have rejected a certain Vedantic intuition, since ...
... about certitudes.” Sri Aurobindo did not only rely on his yogic insight, he followed the evolution of science, including physics, from nearby, and in his writings one finds numerous references to Einstein’s relativity theories and the puzzling conclusions of quantum mechanics. It was part of the fundamental attitude of this “mystic” never to lose contact with reality and the world. This should be kept ...
... explorers in the garden of planet Earth. A Unified Theory that will explain it all, matter, the cosmos, the human being and God? But what is the psychological wisdom we have gained for instance from Einstein’s famous formula? And how do we arrive at a unified theory when it does not take into account all the essential factors of Existence except matter, and this too only quantitatively described? The ...
... meditation at 4, and after 4.30 or 5, there was relaxation, some more joined, and in the talks that ensued the whole world "from China to Peru", from village uplift to Dattatreya Yoga, and from Einstein's Relativity Theory to the painstaking intelligence of the spider, was surveyed with easy freedom and assurance. . At this period of his life (1920-26), Sri Aurobindo's place of residence ...
... even a glimpse of the Presence? But you don't widen! If you did (I suppose you are too lazy to do so) you would get a glimpse and more. The laws of its coming and going are as unknown as Einstein's law of Relativity. It comes of its own sweet will, at its own sweet hour. I feel Peace, Bliss and I write—"A Peace has taken my soul", and you say I have widened. Of course. If you hadn't widened ...
... Explained was the immense Inconscient's scheme, Audacious lines were traced upon the Void; The Infinite was reduced to square and cube. 58 This is the world of the Newtons and the Einsteins. They try to capture the free rhythms of the infinite Consciousness into the syllogisms of finite thought. Imposing schemes of knowledge on the Vast They clamped to syllogisms of finite ...
... the rope in their nose? Supermen cannot be made like that - the long rope is needed. 81 2.NB: The laws of its [of the glimpse of the Presence etc.] coming and going are as unknown to me as Einstein's law of Relativity. It comes of its own sweet will, at its own sweet hour.... The tragedy is that I know nothing of its reason of arrival and departure. Sri Aurobindo: No reason. Only unreason ...
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