It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics. You are all star dust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded because the elements the carbon nitrogen oxygen iron and all the things that matter for evolution were created at the beginning of time. They’re created in the nuclear furnaces of stars […]
Month: May 2020
Claim: Wonders of Indian Architectural & Crafting Technology?
http://diaryofnri.com/wp-content/uploads/How.mp4 One of the forwards I received from couple of WhatsApp groups as follows: This is one of the wonders of Indian Architectural & Crafting Technology. This is a brass handicraft of Bhagwan Shri Krishna sitting on his father Vasudev’s lap, made in ancient India. There is a hole in the bottom of the cup. […]
Emo Philips – à la Indian
In India, once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, “Don’t do it!” He said, “Nobody loves me.” I said, “God loves you. Do you believe in God?” He said, “Yes.” I said, “Are you a Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, Jain, Sikh or Christian?” He said, “A Hindu” I said, “Me, […]
Claim: A 15th century poem, Hanuman chalisa, mentions Sun to Earth distance.
On sites like Quora and in many of the whatsapp forwards in Indian communities, it is frequently claimed that Tulsi Das mentioned the distance between the sun and the earth in the Hanuman chalisa, a devotional poem. Many a times, this particular “fact” is touted as a proof that India had this particular “ancient wisdom” […]