Author: Rakhi Chattapadhyay
Rakhi Chattapadhyay
(Rakhi Chattapadhyay is an engineer and teacher. She writes on science, metaphysics and cultural studies)
What if the universe we experience is only a small part of a much larger reality? Modern physics is beginning to ask the question in its own language. Ancient Indian thought had been asking it for thousands of years On a clear night, when the stars seem to stretch endlessly across the sky, it is difficult not to wonder whether the universe we see is all that exists. We live within a small corner of an immense cosmos, on a planet orbiting an ordinary star, itself one among billions in the Milky Way. Beyond our galaxy lie billions more. The…
