Ancient Indian ideas of physics, available to us
through a variety of sources, are generally not known in
the physics world. Indian astronomer/physicists, starting
with a position that sought to unify space, time, matter,
and consciousness, argued for relativity of space and time,
cyclic and recursively defined universes, and a non-anthropocentric
view. The two most astonishing numerical claims from the
ancient Indians are: a cyclic system of creation of the universe
with a period of 8.64 billion years, although there exist longer
cycles as well; and, speed of light to be 4,404 yojanas per nimesa,
which is almost exactly 186,000 miles per second.
http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9804020
http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9903010
articles by Subhash Kak
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-5901
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