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Originally posted by Nygdan
What does any of that matter, since its baseless mumbo-jumbo? No more science than counting the age of patriarchs in the bible and figuring that the earth is 4 thousand years old.
but can it help in understanding universe and its creation?
No. Its faith based information, IE, irrational nonesense.
[edit on 28-4-2006 by Nygdan]
Prof. N.S. Rajaram, a mathematician who has worked for NASA, comments: "fabricating astronomical data going back thousands of years calls for knowledge of Newton's Law of Gravitation and the ability to solve differential equations."7 Failing this advanced knowledge, the data in the Brahminical tables must be based on actual observation. Ergo, the Sanskrit-speaking Vedic seers were present in person to record astronomical observations and preserve them for a full 6,000 years: "The observations on which the astronomy of India is founded, were made more than three thousand years before the Christian era. (...) Two other elements of this astronomy, the equation of the sun's centre and the obliquity of the ecliptic (...) seem to point to a period still more remote, and to fix the origin of this astronomy 1000 or 1200 years earlier, that is, 4300 years before the Christian era".
Originally posted by Rasobasi420
For example, a Scottish mathematician named John Playfair calculated the date of origin of the currently used Hindu astronomical table to be approximately 4300BC.
it must have been made with direct observation.
Originally posted by Nygdan
Fair enough. But its a far cry from that to measuring the speed of light and calculating the age of the universe. That's the part that seems to be based upon religious thought, not rational though.
[edit on 15-5-2006 by Nygdan]
Originally posted by Astyanax
According to various scientists and linguistics across the world, Sanskrit is the most scientific language.
Meaning what, exactly? What makes one language more 'scientific' than another? And even if this extraordinary claim were true, what would it prove?
Originally posted by amitgoyal
I think that for a language to be advance, it should be atleast unambiguous and phonetic.
Sanskrit is the only natural language which does not contain ambiguity of any nature a bit.
Infact, many advance languages in the world are emerged from Sanskrit.
What does it prove? I think it is pretty obvious.
Originally posted by Astyanax
Such a language would be worse than useless to poets, playwrights, novelists, lyricists, comedians, punsters and the like. The literature of an "unambiguous language" would be very dull indeed. I wouldn't call it advanced; I'd call it retarded.
Originally posted by Rasobasi420
Originally posted by Astyanax
Such a language would be worse than useless... I'd call it retarded.
Wow, that was completely baseless. India is renouned to this day for it's art and literature.