The remarkable similarities between the Hindu Scriptures and the theories, of how the Universe came into existence. Science in Hinduism is one of the interesting topic for many of you. It is a well know fact that in the west, many theoretical physicists, philosophers, and others have read and studied Sanskrit, and the Vedic Scriptures, in order to have a better and clearer understanding of Quantum Mechanics, String Theory, Cosmology, and anything else related to physics. Adolf Hitler used to bring Sanskrit speaking Indian scientists, to translate the Vedic Scriptures, and help his physicists to build advanced weapons, like the ones mentioned in Mahabharata. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the "Father of The Nuclear Bomb," surprised upon observing the first atomic explosion, Oppenheimer repeated a verse from Bhagwat Gita, Einstein, Niels Bohr, and other famous physicists had mentioned studying our Scriptures.
In more recent times, some scientists read the Vedas to better understand and to explain advanced science concepts. The late German physicist Hans-Peter Dürr, of more contemporary times, said, "Whenever I give a lecture on Quantum Physics, I feel I am talking on Vedanta." Present day famous American Theoretical Physicist, Book Author, and founder of the World Science Festival, Brian Greene, in the March 2nd, 2020 issue of Time Magazine, there is an article about Green's latest book,, "Until The End Of Time". This quote is regarding our Scriptures, that while Greene was a physics student, his brotherm used to read from the Hindu Scriptures to him : “My brother is a Hare Krishna devotee,” Greene says. “He’s 13 years older than I am. When I was little and getting interested in math and physics, he’d say, ‘What are you learning?’ I’d describe the Big Bang, and he’d pull out the Vedas and read to me from them. It was a very interesting back-and-forth over the decades between the scientific pathway toward a certain kind of truth and the spiritual, religious pathway to a certain kind of truth.” Even at this present time, our Scriptures are still being read in the west to clarify and make it easier to understand these abstract and interesting concepts on Cosmology, Quantum Mechanics and String Theory, and more.
In the Mandala Rig Veda Hymn 10:129 we read:
नासदासीन्नो सदासीत्तदानीं नासीद्रजो नो व्योमा परो यत् | किमावरीवः कुह कस्य शर्मन्नम्भः किमासीद्गहनं गभीरम् ॥ १॥ न मृत्युरासीदमृतं न तर्हि न रात्र्या अह्न आसीत्प्रकेतः | आनीदवातं स्वधया तदेकं तस्माद्धान्यन्न परः किञ्चनास ॥२॥ तम आसीत्तमसा गूहळमग्रे प्रकेतं सलिलं सर्वाऽइदम् | तुच्छ्येनाभ्वपिहितं यदासीत्तपसस्तन्महिनाजायतैकम् ॥३॥ कामस्तदग्रे समवर्तताधि मनसो रेतः प्रथमं यदासीत् | सतो बन्धुमसति निरविन्दन्हृदि प्रतीष्या कवयो मनीषा ॥४॥ तिरश्चीनो विततो रश्मिरेषामधः स्विदासीदुपरि स्विदासीत् | रेतोधा आसन्महिमान आसन्त्स्वधा अवस्तात्प्रयतिः परस्तात् ॥५॥ को अद्धा वेद क इह प्र वोचत्कुत आजाता कुत इयं विसृष्टिः | अर्वाग्देवा अस्य विसर्जनेनाथा को वेद यत आबभूव ॥६॥ इयं विसृष्टिर्यत आबभूव यदि वा दधे यदि वा न | यो अस्याध्यक्षः परमे व्योमन्त्सो अङ्ग वेद यदि वा न वेद ॥७॥
Then even non-existence was not there, nor existence, There was no air then, nor the space beyond it. What covered it? Where was it? In whose keeping? Was there then cosmic fluid, in depths unfathomed? Then there was neither death nor immortality nor was there then the torch of night and day. The One breathed windlessly and self-sustaining. There was that One then, and there was no other. At first there was only darkness wrapped in darkness. All this was only unilluminated cosmic water. That One which came to be, enclosed in nothing, arose at last, born of the power of heat. In the beginning desire descended on it - that was the primal seed, born of the mind. The sages who have searched their hearts with wisdom know that which is, is kin to that which is not. And they have stretched their cord across the void, and know what was above, and what below. Seminal powers made fertile mighty forces. Below was strength, and over it was impulse. But, after all, who knows, and who can say Whence it all came, and how creation happened? the gods themselves are later than creation, so who knows truly whence it has arisen? Whence all creation had its origin, the creator, whether he fashioned it or whether he did not, the creator, who surveys it all from highest heaven, he knows — or maybe even he does not know
This Rig Veda Hymn is mentioned when discussing theories about the creation of the Universe, not only by the religious, but also even the atheists. This creation is also mentioned in Puranas, mentioning the creation of the Universe, its destruction, and the next creation, this have been repeating over and over again. Lord Shiva when engaged in this interesting event, which is the actual creation of space-time, and the Universe, is known as Lord Makahala, the Great Lord of Time. This representation as Lord Makahala is a black deity, and as a very powerful form of Lord Shiva, when destroying the Universe, and everything disappear into a dark void, like a black hole, the nothingness, the empty vacuum, after the annihilation of everything that has ever existed. The absence of everything, (what we are used to, since birth, and we have memories of what we can see, touch, look at, being aware of, etc), after its destruction is nothing but darkness, everything that was, is now in this dark vacuum. Where nothing exists, like inside a Black Hole, everything that goes into a Black Hole no longer exists. perhaps what exists is only what can not be destroyed or created, except by this powerful deity, and able to violate, or suspends the laws of physics.
During the instant of the awesome, energetic and powerful instant of creation, this moment may be visualized as a White Hole exploding out, and creating as a new Universe. It is amazing that this creation and destruction has happened before several times, by the dark Lord Mahakala. This event of creation according to the Christian Scriptures has remarkable similarities to this Hymn in the Rig Veda. What was or existed before the creation is described as: The One, the Absolute, Omnipotent and Powerful, which is, spaceless, timeless, yet in its own way the dynamic and the sole force of creation. We can understand the awesome power of this deity. Mahakala the uncreated that has ever been and will always be. these abstract concepts are not easy to understand, but describes the awesomeness, and power of this deity, In the Christian Scriptures striking similarities can be found too. In the Book of Genesis, the First Chapter reads: 1:1. In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, 1:2 The Earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. Both Christian and Hindu Scriptures mention darkness before creation.
There is a new theory about the creation of the Universe, different from the Big Bang, this new theory is by Theoretical Physicists Paul Steinhardt, of Princeton University and Anna Ijjas of Harvard University. Their theory is very similar to the Rig Veda's story about the destruction and creation of the Universe. This theory is like what Rig Veda explains us, that the Universe, after its creation is also destroyed, to be created and destroyed again., and totally different from both the Big Bang, and Fred's Hoyle the Steady State Universe theory, in which the Universe is endless, with no creation and no destruction, but always existing, always being. This is called the Bouncing Cosmology. It is like what the Rig Vedas, Hymn 10: 129, as already said. Our Universe undergoes several creations and destruction, repeatedly over and over. This new theory solves some problems or issues with the Big Bang's inflation issues. P.J. Steinhardt and A. Ijjas explain in their "Bouncing Universe" or "cyclic," Universe. it explains not only inflation, expansion, and why it seems the Universe's expansion is accelerating, also explains dark matter and energy. Perhaps in the future these all of these issues will be understood, or could be replaced, or explained with new ideas,
