Author name: Dwaipayan Pradhan

Of Gods and Godmen

There is a common misunderstanding about Gods and their number in Sanaatana Dharma. The Vedas declare “ek sat viprah vahudhaa vadanti” meaning God is one, but is spoken of as many by the knowledgeable due to functional requirements. For example, even though electricity is used for heating, cooling, blowing air, driving cars and so on, it […]

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Perception and Dreams

It is well known that sleep helps your brain absorb new information. But what about dreams? Some researchers have speculated that they, too, might improve memory. Now, a new study provides some experimental evidence: People who dreamed about a virtual reality maze they’d encountered a few hours earlier were quicker to find a way out

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Overcoming “Scientific” Superstition 13

POSSIBLE TYPES OF STATISTICAL INFORMATION ABOUT A SYSTEM 3 The Schrödinger equation was devised to find the probability of finding the particle in the narrow region between x and x+dx, which is denoted by P(x) dx. The function P(x) is the probability distribution function or probability density, which is found from the wave function ψ(x)

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