Science and Hinduism

JAY SHREE POOJYASHREE SHREE AMMA
JAY MAHAN BRAHMASHREE GOPALAVALLIDASAR
JAY SHREE RADHEKRISHNA SATHSANG

Dear Readers,
In our last posting we gave you a comparison of the scientific law of conservation of energy and its 'spiritual version' having its base in 'Srimad Bhagwad Gita'. We said we would continue our discussions on that topic in our next posting.

However we are diverting our discussion to a different law in this posting.
In this posting we will discuss on a different scientific statement and link it with hinduism.

It goes as follows :

"To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction".

This statement is the third law of motion, established by 'Issac Newton'.

We will take an example for a better understanding.

Imagine a boy kicking open a door. The force exerted by the boy on the door accelerates the
door (it flies open); at the same time, the door exerts an equal but opposite force on the boy, which decelerates the boy (his foot loses forward velocity).The boy will be painfully aware of the 'reaction' force to his 'action' particularly if his foot is bare.

Let F stand for force,
FBD for force exerted by the boy on the door and
FDB for force exerted by the door on the boy.

Then according to this law,

FBD = -FDB

i.e the force exerted by the boy on the door equals the force exerted by the door on the boy.
However since there is a negative sign before FDB it means that the force exerted by the
door on the boy is in a direction opposite to the direction in which the boy is exerting force on
the door.

We will continue with more examples on this law in our next posting. Till then Radhekrishna.

Sarvam Guruvarpanam.