How scientific are scriptures?

Many people believe that ancient scriptures have answers to all questions. Some times they show some quotes from those books and try to prove that modern scientific theories are being indicated by those text. Sometimes the logic is so much convincing that we start feeling if ancient people really had such technology.

To understand it better, first think about this question. Do you think that Orion (the constellation) was drawn on the sky? No! It is just countless random stars and we see a pattern in them because we want to see it.

Then there is a fact that most of the science starts with hypotheses then it is logically associated with proven concepts (theorised). Later with solid evidences it can become a scientific statement.

What we find in ancient scriptures (like Vedas), are either patterns that we want to see or the hypotheses. It is said that these hypotheses were invented through meditation. Even scientists make hypotheses by meditation (remember benzene structure was found in dream).

But there is a big difference here. Not all the text of scriptures was practically implemented. Whatever was implemented is widely known already for example Ayurveda, Yoga and parts of many other scientific discoveries. For example some less known text like Sushrut Sanhita which was practically used in ancient times. Apart from few such texts most of it is hypotheses and can not be considered as science until we may verify it with experimental facts.

Half truth and science.

I feel there is a mistake it in our education system. Even at college level, we do not know the full scientific method; neither in theory nor in practical. Even though we have labs we never come to know the application of these scientific terms in our day-to-day life. So they only become terms without specific meanings for us. That is why religious or commercial organisations use such terms to attract people.

Do you know what does Active Salt mean? Colgate knows that! Do you know what is American Lumino-Peptide? Emami knows that! Pantene Shampoo has Pro-Vitamin B5. Here is a quote from there site:

"The key behind the efficacy of all Pantene products lies in Pro-Vitamin B5, otherwise known as Panthenol" - http://www.pantene.in/en-IN/about.jsp

What kind of vitamin can be taken directly by hairs? On top of that the meaning of vitamin B5 is also interesting:

Pantothenic acid (Vitamin B5) - "Its name derives from the Greek pantothen (πάντοθεν) meaning "from everywhere" and small quantities of pantothenic acid are found in nearly every food."

Why are we paying for something which comes free with our daily food, because our curiosity is lost with the achievement of our degrees. The names of the products given above are just samples and I have no intenssion to target any specific company but what I want to indicate is everybody is using the fact that most of the people knows only the scientific terms and trust them without knowing the meaning.

I wish we could spread the science in place of religions so that people could use their logical thought process instead of blind faith.

Theories that need to be unified.

Space can unify many theories but to accomplish that we need to understand that space is not void.

There are many theories and facts which seem to be different but really very tightly connected. I am enlisting them here for future reference:

1. Light is affected by the geometry of space (gravity).
2. Gravity is proportional to the mass of the matter.
3. Mass is an unknown property. We are only expecting the Higgs to be found at LHC. But, if I am not going in wrong direction then we will never find Higgs. See: Higgs Boson

A not so widely known fact about 'Space'

Any volume of space containing no particle of matter, is still not empty. Even the absolute vacuum has a pressure measure of zero but in universe there are places which have negative pressure.

This proves that even when there is no matter available, we can not call it empty and thus space is not empty but filled with something which is the origin (zero) of the frame of reference for all the matter (not for dark matter). This is why we think that space is empty while the reality is that, it is not.

Space vs Space

Can we be sure that the space inside atom (between electrons and nucleus) and the space outside the atom has same characteristics? My hypothesis is that the space has something which helps electromagnetism work. But electrons makes a kind of shield around nucleus which disables the electromagnetic effects inside the atom.

This can explain why positively charges protons never repulse.

Medium of Light

There is no luminiferous aether but that doesn't mean that space is empty. It is made up something which provides medium to light. Einstein says any such things would slow down the light. Yes it is slowing down the light that is why light is limited to 3,00,000 Km/s.

Speed of a wave depends on the properties of its medium. Space is determining the speed of light and thus the scale of time that is why there is a sequence of events in the universe. In the absence of this limit to the speed of light, all events would have happened instantaneously.

Mass Space Equivalence

Let's take a hypothetical modal of the universe. In this modal we have two analogies:

1. Water is analogous to the space in real world.
2. Bubbles of water vapor analogous to the matter in the real world.

Now when water vapor will change into water; only the energy, being released; will be measurable because we have no way to measure space(water in this case). Nobody will say that water vapor (matter) is converting into water (space). People will say that water vapor (matter) is converting into energy.

Now let's talk about the real world. Same as the above example, the space is intangible to us, so when mass converts into space; we only see the energy getting released and thus we say that mass is convertible into energy.

Currently this is only my hypothesis, I want to research on this, if I could get a chance.

Relativity of Space

Perfect vacuum is just the origin of our reference frame of space. It is not the absolute zero. It means that space can be negative too. At least to some extent if not to the negative infinitive.

Security by Obscurity

Security of proprietary systems is sometimes the security by obscurity, which is in deed not real security. It is just like a treasure hidden inside a maze. It is hard to find but not too hard.