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Code name God
Science partly fulfilled some of its promises, only to give rise to its own breed of evils and devils. It ‘demonstrated’ and convinced us of the presence of air and vacuum, gravity and photons, black holes and anti-matter as well as the absence of God. And now that the ‘God-shaped hole in the head’ (Sartre) was empty and its capital letter shrunk, mankind was pushed into a greater bog of despair. Science would have been science and religion would have been religion and the twain’d never have met but for people like Mani Bhaumik. One of the pioneers of laser technology that made things like LASIK surgery possible, this NRI at the frontier of scientific research was now puzzled by questions that baffle most scientists—when did the universe come into being? Who made it? Etc. Strangely he found some answers in the religious scriptures of the world. The result is this book, which offers hope for the faithful and proof for the doubtful. Dr Bhaumik survived colonial oppression, cyclone, epidemic and famine to earn a PhD in physics from IIT and a post-doctoral fellowship from UCLA. Born in extreme poverty and bred on Gandhian ideals, he realised that his material success had an important ingredient missing. The good ole thinking scientist that he was, he embarked upon his experiment-reaction-inference methodological trip. This book is the result of his quest for answers that science doesn’t know of yet and religion speaks of esoterically always. In short, this is a handbook for the common man to comprehend that science and religion are heading in the same direction. His search for this ‘holy grail of science’ is as awe-inspiring as his journey from a mud hut in Bengal to a mansion in Bel Air, California. He talks of his revolutionary father, who fought the British with little else than determination, of his mother who fought poverty with meditation and of his grandmother who fought starvation with sacrifice. From his personal and spiritual journey to fight deprivation of so many kinds, he leads us to the larger mysteries of the skies and beyond. He tells us how in the recent decades, scientific research has come face to face with questions that all religions of the world have been answering all along. Hence the need for this book to bridge the gap and reach out to all. With quotations from Buddhist inscriptions to Tao’s postulates and Einstein’s observations to cutting edge research in quantum field theory, he bootstraps Chinese philosophy and Descartes with Bohm and Casimir so that you move back and forth in the thought dimension and discover connections where there were only gaps before. No wonder Penguin has listed the title under the non-fiction/science/religion category. The software is pre-installed. Go by the book. Try decoding God. Good Luck.
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FOR the major part of the
history of mankind, God has been the director-cum-scriptwriter-cum-hero.
Till science came along that is. It held man’s faith upside down and
the small change of age-old beliefs fell to the wayside. It promised to
deliver us from all evil and disease and answer all the questions that
the mind could ever conceive of.