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Expo unravels Vedic link to astronomy

Inquisitive:Students at an exhibition on astronomy in Tirupati on Saturday.

TIRUPATI: The exhibition on space astronomy opened on Saturday at the Regional Science Centre, a unit of National Council of Science Museums, threw light on the aspects like Big Bang, the theories propounded by astronomers like Galileo and Copernicus and their Indian counterparts such as Bhaskara and Aryabhatta, for the benefit of students.

Big Bang theory

Titled ‘Messages from Heaven', the expo was inaugurated by Sri Venkateswara Vedic University Vice-Chancellor S. Sudarsana Sarma. In his address, he explained that Vedic literature had information about the universe and the ‘Big Bang theory' was nothing new to Indian astronomers, so were the information on concept of life on earth and existence of life in other planetary systems. He said ‘Sunya' or anti-matter, for which the scientific fraternity was searching for answers, had been visualised and explained in the scriptures. The advancement of astronomy and astrophysics peaked in India during the ancient period, but the research did not progress later, as the Vedic information had not been passed down through generations, he rued.

Career option

Prof. Sarma explained that Indians had an edge over their global counterparts vis-a-vis scientific knowledge, given the number of Indian scientists employed in various astronomical and aeronautical projects across the globe. RSC Project Coordinator K. Madan Gopal advised the students to take up science as a career option and keep up India's supremacy in the field of fundamental science. The expo has on display the Sawai Jaisingh observatory and the various scientific instruments used by renowned scientists, besides the models of various ancient instruments used for measuring time, which have stood as a symbol of Indian heritage in astronomy.

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