I see people around me who have some or the other way some itch for physics. ..every designer some point of his life wanted to make his career in physics... although theoretical physics is tucked away nicely in the mysteries of advanced mathematics... it always eludes one when he sets out make career choices that are at that time of life look pragmatic and worldly. But the quest for philosophical foundation is always on...in some form...some call it spiritual or some knowledge, some search for completeness...
I grew up in a school where a day used to start with recitation of 16th adhyay of Bhagvadgita.. for reasons beyond my understanding even today.. they say it explains so many things, mostly behaviral dos and donts but I still pick my choices on my own on every cross-roads and those codes of conduct fails to come to my mind. Later in the day we were taught physics which tries to define the world view of space, time, object, matter, cause and effect.. separate isolated belief systems were under constructions ... I am sure folks from school wanted us to learn Upanishads but with no broader framework as to why it is good to know these ancient scriptures... so the answers are now getting clearer. Its when Fritjof Kapra runs you through the simplistic understandings of philosophical basis and limits reached by western way of critical inquiry into things, lets call it quantum physics deep downward and relativistic model upward. In his book "Tao of physics" he draws parallels from Hinduisms and other eastern mysticisms and I feel my both ends somewhere meeting. I start feeling consistent again.
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