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Deepak Loomba <[log in to unmask]>
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Colleagues there are two trail mails below. See the lower one with a link
to Vijaywaani which is about 1930 conversations of Einstein and Tagore in
Berlin about truth and reality. Both noble laureates and cherished as great
minds of 20th century in the world though former got a noble for physics
later for literature.

Then read the immediately below mentioned short comments of mine on this
piece.


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From: Deepak Loomba <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2020 15:33
Subject: From Deepak Loomba... Tagore Einstein and Quantum Mechanics-K P
Prabhakaran Nair-19 September 2020
To: jsandhya <[log in to unmask]>, Come Carpentier <[log in to unmask]>,
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Come, Sandhya and Sudershan,

It is a wonderful article which I am sharing with a few friends and groups.

Few interesting comments which you are welcome to circulate:

1) It is pretty interesting to me that Einstein practically
evolved/invented observers and seems to be disagreeing to it. The moment
Einstein in special theory of relativity created 'frame of reference', he
had concurrently, maybe unknowing to himself, created the observer as well.
Being a physicist I can affirm that Relativity was the first success
mankind had in objectivising the subjective, if one looks at it from eagle
eye view.

2) The conversation portrays two beautiful minds.

3) The conversation also illustrates that even the most dispassionate and
unbiased, illuminated minds of a whole century were not free from their
cultural, memetic cages. "Irrespective of how long one pours water on a
banana leaf after the meal, the greasiness of the leftover oil never
disappears completely."

Vis-a-vis Noble prize... Irrespective of the criticism, it remains the most
coveted endorsement of what one has done. The Noble committee is not a
democratic body, where member vote to elect a laureate. It's an expert
committee.

Could it do errors. Surely yes.
Is there a pattern to these errors. No one has ever complained.
If you are not happy with the assessment, please come up with an
alternative assessment and prizing model. And why not.

Think of it ... I have strongly believed that the best people to start
services like Researchgate or Google scholar is the Noble Committee.
Because a Noble prize is the top endorsement, they are best placed for
accumulating intellectual inputs like Research gate does .









On Sat, 19 Sep 2020 14:26 Come Carpentier, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> Date: Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 9:00 AM
> Subject: [media_monitor5] Tagore Einstein and Quantum Mechanics-K P
> Prabhakaran Nair-19 September 2020
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> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.vijayvaani.com_ArticleDisplay.aspx-3Faid-3D5530&d=DwIFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=2unwEDG12pLqRuEi5Cql_WQg9zaJdUo93zE_ax_yElA&s=ASkSAU-Ke2zzD-MHACPEMqjP9i3CNHuK1T3zpIoxgSI&e= 
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> *Tagore, Einstein and Quantum Mechanics – The Upanishad Connection*
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> *K P Prabhakaran Nair*
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> *19 September 2020*
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> The 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics was jointly given to the Austrian-Irish
> physicist Erwin Schrodinger and British physicist Paul Dirac “for the
> discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory”. This great scientific
> recognition has relevance to India’s philosophy of Vedanta, as stated in
> the Upanishads. It is fascinating to know what some of the great European
> Physicists thought about Hinduism.  On July 14, 1930, Albert
> Einstein welcomed the Indian philosopher, musician, and Nobel
> laureate Rabindranath Tagore to his home on the outskirts of Berlin. The
> two proceeded to have one of the most stimulating, intellectually riveting
> conversations in history, exploring the age-old-friction between science
> and religion. *Science and the Indian Tradition: When Einstein met Tagore*
> (Source: Public Library, Berlin) recounts a broader discussion of the
> intellectual renaissance that swept India in the early twentieth century,
> germinating a curious osmosis of Indian traditions and secular Western
> scientific doctrine.
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