Exploring the visceral parallels between Hindu warrior goddess traditions and the revelations of modern physics.
Carl Sagan famously noted that Hinduism is the only major religion with time scales matching modern scientific cosmology.
4.32 Billion YearsRemarkably close to Earth's estimated age. A numerical resonance that fascinated Sagan.
13.8 Billion YearsAge of the Universe since the Big Bang. Roughly half of Brahma's full day-night cycle.
In the Devi Mahatmya, Durga is formed by the coalescence of Tejas (radiant energy) emanating from all the gods.
Scholars note this resonates with the Conservation of Energy. The energy is neither created nor destroyed, only transformed into the Warrior Goddess.
“The mountain of radiant energy transformed into the feminine form of the incomparable Devi...”
— Devi Mahatmya, Chapter 2
Click the deities to release their Tejas.
King Kakudmi waits for a “brief musical performance” in Brahma's realm, only to return and find millions of years have passed. A narrative parallel to Gravitational Time Dilation.
Drag to wait longer in the realm of the Creator.
“O King... 27 chatur-yugas have elapsed, and their sons, grandsons and descendants have all passed away.”
While you listened to the music for 1 minute(s), civilizations on Earth rose and fell.
Wave Mechanics
Famously argued that the plurality of consciousness is an illusion, citing the Upanishadic equation Atman = Brahman.
The Trinity Test
Witnessing the first nuclear detonation, he recalled the Gita. “Now I am become Death (Kala), the destroyer of worlds.”
Complementarity
Adopted the Yin-Yang symbol. He saw Eastern epistemology as a parallel to the “complementarity” of quantum duality.
The Sri Yantra demonstrates remarkable geometric properties. It consists of nine interlocking isosceles triangles (4 upward, 5 downward) creating 43 subsidiary triangles.
The Consensus: While the numerical correspondences (4.32 billion years) are striking, rigorous scholarship distinguishes between poetic resonance and scientific prediction.
“The parallels illuminate not identity but rhyme—different languages addressing the same universe.”