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Understanding India – Part 1

Understanding India - Part 1

‘Chaos often breeds life while Order creates habit.’ This statement from the famous historian Henry Adams has a lot to tell. A few weeks back, on his return from Japan, Pujya Guruji Shree Rishi Prabhakar was sharing how the whole country appeared so morose as if it has gone into a mass mourning till date ever since the Hirosima episode.

He explained that this was simply because of too much order. Everything is right about Japan and that is the whole problem. When everything is right, the whole process becomes very mechanical, very robot-like.

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Fate or Free will

A summary of facts from David Shiang’s famous book

GOD DOES NOT PLAY DICE

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A) History of Modern Physics

1. CLASSICAL PHYSICS

After the renaissance scientists like Galileo & Copernicus, the next giant to come in the scientific arena was Isaac Newton. Newton discovered the laws of motion and science related to gross objects. He claimed that the world is inherently deterministic & predictable & if we apply certain parameters to physical laws, that which is to come can be determined too. He didn’t believe in the possibility of chance, randomness or unpredictability in events. Keep Reading

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