As we know, matter is made up of atoms which constitute of particles – protons, neutrons and electrons. The velocity of these particles are extremely high, 960 km/sec for an electron and 84000 km/sec for a proton or neutron. It is seen that when the ‘space of captivity’ gets smaller, the particles get more virulent and its velocity, as a result, increases. The activity takes place inside an atom which is in fact, a void of sorts. In other words, matter which is defined by its shape and robustness is actually an empty space where particles move around at astronomically high velocities! That is equivalent to saying that the stillness of matter is unreal. Everything keeps on changing.
Even the Sanskrit word samsara means ‘continuous movement’. According to Quantum Physics, the ‘wave characteristics’ of particle is causing the dynamics of matter. The Relativity Theory too endorses this view. The intrinsic dynamism is the prime characteristics of matter. The Universe is never static. It is always in dynamic equilibrium, but we can’t see it through. The problem is with our seeing. We just can’t see beyond the stillness of things around us. The intrinsic dynamism is the same even when the magnitude is changed from micro to macro. Planets, stars, galaxies….all follow a similar pattern. The hydrogen gas found in inter-stellar space revolves around a point turning into a star. The infinitesimal neutron which has a velocity of 84000 km/sec in the nucleus to the un-imaginably large galaxy which moves (away) at the speed of light follow a certain cosmic order.
Theory of relativity conclusively proved that matter is energy solidified. That is, matter can be converted into any form of energy within the law of conservation. Nobel laureate Dr. S.Chandrasekhar discovered that matter is formed when two strong gravitational fields collide. This holds good in the reverse order too. In the first case, when two gravitational fields collide, energy gets transformed into matter. In the second case, when sub-atomic particles collide they are destroyed on account of the collision itself but their mass is turned mainly into kinetic energy and the rest (of the energy) gets distributed among other particles on the collision path.
Well, you have a pretty good grasp over the relationship between matter and energy.
Now, what would be relationship between Energy and Mind?
Extending this question, how is Matter related to Mind?
Can anybody find an equation?
(The probable answer, you guessed it ….is a simple NO)
Modern day cosmologists have inferred that universe comes into being from “Big Bang Singularity” and it is going to end up in “Big Crunch Singularity”. Again there would be a Big-Bang and the process goes on, never-ending. Cosmologists don’t have any idea of the happenings immediately preceding the Big-Bang and what follows just after the Big-Crunch. However, Vendanta talks about such a state, named ‘avyakta’. It is a constant. Avyakta survives everything. ..permeates through Big-Bangs and Big-Crunchs….
Kalpa (the period between a Big-Bang and a Big-Crunch) may come and Kalpa go, but Avyakta goes on forever. We just can’t quantify Avyakta with our meager measuring instruments, i.e., the sense-organs.
The physicists are now convinced that particles are no basic building blocks and they are energy packets, just interacting patterns in time and space. In the gross world, the concept of matter makes sense, but it does not have much significance in the subtle plane. Quantum Theory proved that the patterns are inseparable, they are inter-related. The particles are just a state. They are an event. As we have seen in S-Matrix theory, the observer and the observed are no separate entities.
SreeNarayana Guru says it all…….,
“Srushtiyum Srustaavayathum Srushtijaalavum Srushtikkulla Saamagriyaayathum”
We tend to see only the srushtijaalam part which is the product of the Mind.
Both Modern Physics and Vedanta converge at the point that everything in the universe is inter-related and inter-dependent. There is an underlying order (Rithm) which is revealed to us through close observation.
You have to set your attitude and style of functioning as per this.
Finding the superiority of a stream, either Vedanta or Modern Physics over the other, is not my purpose.