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Relativity in Hindu Mythology

Just was reading about theory of relativity from Stephen Hawking's book

There was an example that stated that if twins out of them if one traveled at speed of light in space and returned then he/she would be younger to the other who was in earth.

That sparked the Hindu mythology story of Chakaravarthy Musukunda who went to fight for Indra to Indralok (somewhere outside earth). After a long fight when he returned he found his family and descendants already dead due to old age while he was still young.

More on Musukunda chakravarthy can be found at (Google of course) http://www.nagapattinam.tn.nic.in/sikkal-history.html

After several centuries Einstein came up with Theory of relativity.

Should we take serious look at things dismissed as bed time tales..

Labels: bedtime tales, musukunda charkravarthy, relativity

posted by csganesh @ 3:13 AM