VIVEKANANDA: AN INTUITIVE SCIENTIST

Humanities

Swami Vivekananda was a multifaceted genius. While his spiritual eminence is well known, his insights in physical sciences are lesser known. He was well acquainted with the scientific thoughts of his time and was remarkably accurate in his observations and conclusions with regards to many scientific notions.The power of intuition is an important ingredient of creative thinking which leads to innovative discoveries – Eureka moment. Our sages did possess the intuitive power through concentration of mind doing meditation and have made lots of very significant contributions in science and mathematics. The concept of zero, infinity and the decimal number system were developed in India. Swamiji saw interrelationships among Sankhya philosophy, cosmology, gravity and relativity. He also pronounced that energy and matter are interchangeable in space and time domain. On his suggestion, Nikola Tesla, the mathematician and physicist tried to formulate a theory on the above.During his tour of the United States and Europe, Swamiji met many of the well-known scientists of the time. He met in New York Sir William Thompson, Lord Kelvin and Professor Helmholtz – leading representatives of science in the West. The mathematical proof of the principle that Swamiji was looking for did not come until about 10 years later, when Albert Einstein published his paper on relativity and his famous equation E=mc2. This is what Swamiji was looking to get from Tesla.

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