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Black Holes do not exist and I have been writing on omers for this discovery. And yet, Sidharths contrithis for several years, says the 66-year-old scientist. butions were left unnoticed. The scientist, however,
Now, whats interesting is that Stephen Hawking is laments the present state of the scientific scenario in
himself saying that Black Holes do not exist. If they India and feels that the West is miles ahead.
exist at all that would have to be of the supermassive Unfortunately, Indians do not excel at what they do.
type, millions of times as massive as the Sun. Such We are very lax and have a Chalta Hai attitude.
supermassive Black Holes are believed to be at the This is the case across the country. As Bernard Shaw
centre of galaxies, he explains.
He was conferred with the Einstein-Galilei Laureate worth doing it well, he says.
and Gold Medal of Institute for Theoretical Physics Asked if he fears his lifes work would be rejected,
and Advanced Mathematics and Galileo Telesio of Sidharth smiles and says, Whatever Ive done,
Italy 2013, which he shared with Nobel laureate pro- whether it is accepted or not, I enjoyed doing it and I
fessor DDOsheroff. He also received Italys highest derived immense satisfaction from it. In the end,
honour to non-Italians, Knight-Commander of the thats all that matters.
Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity in 2006.
architecture and astrology way before the western knowledge existing (in our scriptures)," he said.
world knew about them. Speaking at an international
conference on Vedas, he however, added that the Nair, who was ISRO chairman from 2003-09, also
geometry
was
used
to
make
information in vedas was in a "condensed format" claimed
which made it difficult for the modern science to ac- calculations for building cities during the Harappan
civilization and the Pythagorean theorem also exist-
cept it.
and we were the first ones to find that out," Nair tures having scientific information including on plassaid, adding that everything in Vedas could not be tic surgery as well as aero-dynamics.
understood as they were in chaste Sanskrit.
He also talked very highly about fifth century astronomer- mathematician Aryabhatta saying, "We are
really proud that Aryabhatta and Bhaskara have done
extensive work on planetary work and exploration of
outer planets. It was one of the challenging fields.
Ayurveda's healing powers: Top US research institutions conducting mega study on traditional Indian medicine
A major study on Ayurveda's healing powers is being conducted at the
Chopra Center for Wellbeing in California by looking at the genetic and
cellular response to a whole systems
approach on health and well-being.
The research is titled Self-Directed
Biological Transformation Initiative
(SBTI) Research Study. It will measure the total effects of an intensive
immersion into a systemic program to check for a person's connection
to the healing process. It will study genes, hormones, bacteria response,
inflammation markers, weight, stress makers etc. in participants who
will be split into groups that receive medicine and control groups who
do not.
The study involves top research and medical institutions in the USHarvard University, Scripps Clinic, University of California San Diego,
Mt Sinai University, University of California San Francisco and Duke
University, reports the Times of India. Most traditional medicine and
therapies are not done in isolation, where the focus is on symptoms
alone.
"The body's healing system is still little understood because of the complex inputs - thoughts, emotions, diet, stress, exercise, immune response
- that affect healing. The picture is further clouded when isolated findings overlap or contradict one another. In the context of Ayurveda, therapies and practices aren't done in isolation. Instead of focusing on local
symptoms, the diagnosis is systemic. Only now is Western medicine
beginning to understand that a blanket condition like 'stress' or
'inflammation' connects many diverse disorders, including heart disease,
cancer, and diabetes," says Deepak Chopra.
The study is also an attempt to scientifically establish the efficacy of
Ayurveda which is largely seen as pseudoscience. Commenting on the
beneficial gene activity of ashwagandha, one of Ayurveda's primary
medicine, on Alzheimer, Dr Rudolf Tanzi, a professor at the Harvard
University and a co-researcher at the SBTI study says, "Any scientist of
worth will admit that most of time we are wrong. Just look back at science 100 years ago and ask how much is still correct today. Why would
this not continue to be the case 100 years from now? Thus, it makes
sense to look back to ancient remedies and wisdom, for example, as
prescribed in Ayurveda medicine."
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"We synthesized an ibogaine analogue in our laboratory from scratch and saw that when mice was treated with 40 mg/kg dose of the new substance, it could
provide pain relief for more than 50 minutes. "When
treated with morphine at a dose of 10 mg/kg, duration was 45 minutes, which is lesser than the novel
substance," said Sinha.
"A common state rule will be announced by the central government. But it has not been done yet. It is a
procedural delay. Once they announce the rules, the
rules will be simpler - only if the states implement it.
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