Rudra Narasimham garu raises some very important questions related the duality, the distinction between non-living and living, the use of symbolism in physics etc. I still have not been able to see what exactly is the link for Gurjada Murty garu's mathematical thesis that deals with the issue of consciousness being integrated into current day Physics. Hope one of you will give me that link. In the meanwhile, I would like to invite your attention to Bell's theorem on non locality in particle physics and its experimental verification by Aspect , the double slit experiments with light photons in quantum theory, John Wheeler's delayed choice thought exeriments and last but not the least in the recent interest in the Higgs Field and Higgs Bosons ( metaphorically named God particles ). My synthesis of all these recent developments in Physics is another musing from a Weird Scientist like me. Here it is for whatever it is worth for discussion.
Higgs Field, Brahman and God
According to the Standard Model of Modern Physics, the Higgs field and the Higgs Bosons are the ultimate sources for the masses of all other particles that make up our universe. The Standard Model and the Big Bang theory of Modern Physics do not recognize that the Eternal Void is also the source of our emotions. Ancient seers of India on the other hand knew that Emotions central to all life cannot arise unless the potentiality for them exists in the Eternal Primordial Void. They called the Static Potentiality of the Ultimate Source of our Universe by the name Nirguna Brahman and its Dynamic Realization in the Universe by the name Saguna Brahman. Nirguna in Sanskrit means Emotions only in Potentiality and Sarguna means their evolution in Space and Time in cycles eternal. Each cycle is said to be 4.32 billions of years of potentiality and another 4.32 billions years of its dynamic manifestation. More details on these concepts reveal a striking order of magnitude agreement for the age of our universe between this Cosmology and Modern Cosmology.
With these thoughts in mind, I venture to suggest that the Higgs field might very well be the Nirguna Brahman of Hinduism that is vibrant with Chaitanya loosely translated as Consciousness. This makes sense since as I said earlier in this post, emotions among life forms cannot arise without the potentiality for them being present in the primordial field. When that field operates on the material world that arises out of itself, the dynamism of field interactions sets in resulting in what the ancients called Saguna Brahman.
These ideas are consistent with the Abrahamic religions as well if you think of God in terms of Pantheistic and Panentheistic notions. That's why God is said to be not only Omnipresent and and Omnipotent but also Omniscient. For more on Pantheism and Panentheism and the subtle difference between the two and how scholars have made the connection between them and Hindu Advaita, one can do a Google search.
It's time that Modern Scientists recognize these ideas and seek ways to modify the World View based on the Standard Model and the Big Bang Theory without making an arbitrary distinction between the living and the non-living and try to unify Biology, Genetics and Neuroscience with Physics. Only another Giant like Einstein can achieve this kind of unification
Gopala Rao Utukuru
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