Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Rudram and Planck's Constant

What is Planck's constant which is the precursor of how the wave of electronegativity in the form of a cloud requires to be quantized to give an atom the most stable configuration.Is there a coded answer in the Rudram in its first Anuvaka.Here is the verbatim translation of Adi Shankara's commentary and similarity of this coded message of what Planck thought much later
O Rudra! (By that) form of Yours which is aghorA, ie. not that which is terrifying. It is said (in the BrAhmaNa) "(Rudra is verily this sacrificial fire, agni.) That Rudra has two forms; one is terrifying and the other is shivA, auspicious (or gentle)." Or, the word shivA means that which is free from ignorance (avidyA) and ist effects, which is of the nature of the nondual Brahman that is Existence, Consciousness, and Bliss, which is not terrifying but which causes joy like the form of the moon. apApakAshinI means that which destroys sins by merely being remembered and which reveals merit (puNya). Through that form which is most delightful and of the nature of infinite bliss, O Girishanta, who reside on the (KailAsa) mountain and confer happiness, behold us (look at us) so that (by this glance) we may be united with the highest good (Brahman).

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The brAhmaNa portion identifies Rudra with the sacrificial fire, agni and speaks of two forms of Rudra - one terrifying, the other benign. It is this benign aspect that is associated with the eradication of ignorance and the bestowal of knowledge. It may be noted that the Shri Dakshinamurti form, that grants the Supreme knowledge of Brahman, is the gentle form.

Planck's Constant and the Energy of a Photon

In 1900, Max Planck was working on the problem of how the radiation an object emits is related to its temperature. He came up with a formula that agreed very closely with experimental data, but the formula only made sense if he assumed that the energy of a vibrating molecule was quantized--that is, it could only take on certain values. The energy would have to be proportional to the frequency of vibration, and it seemed to come in little "chunks" of the frequency multiplied by a certain constant. This constant came to be known as Planck's constant, or h, and it has the value
This doesn't make any sense to me. I think I'll go ask some one to help me to decode
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