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Please do point out to me where Bhaskara has explained the universal law of gravitation. The inverse square law. That's what Newton brought to the table. That's what I said, about modern understanding. (Although to be very pedantic, you would have to take into account the relativistic anomalies.)

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Isn't that blasphemy?

I would recommend it. It was written before partition, so it covers Pakistan's history as well. Here is a link to a PDF: http://www.apnaorg.com/books/english/discovery-india-nehru/discovery-india-nehru.pdf Like most other works of Nehru, it is written in a very charming and personal style...

I am not disputing that. But I am disputing that any of those pages contain the universal law of gravitation as understood today, or technology to make invisible planes. Your assertion that just because there was a Harappan civilization, the Europeans couldn't possibly teach us advanced sciences...

Goddamn, I don't even know how to reply to this hot air. Never mind, I'm not here to argue - I wanted to explain some things, and I have done so. Look mate. I really mean no offence, honestly - but I request you to stop talking about things you clearly have no knowledge of. I have to quote...

I wasn't debating, I was explaining. Read that post again slowly, to udnerstand my point. Clearly it was lost on you.

LOL. I see. So I guess since Harappan civilization was so advanced for its time, there is no way that Europeans or Americans should have more knowledge of aeronautics today, right? That's why Europeans are requesting transfer of technology from us for these things.

Did you even read my post? I said that calculus was first used in central Kerala, two centuries before Newton and Lebnitz. I know that, and I said that.

You are confusing the two Bhaskaras. The fellow who wrote the Chedyakadhikara was Bhaskara 2, who lived in the 12th century. He revered Brahmagupta, and in fact most of his works build on earlier works of Brahmagupta. Bhaskara 1 was roughly contemporanious with Brahmagupta.

It wasn't Bhaskaracharya. It was Brahmagupta. Read my post above in response to levina about that. Yes, he said that the earth attracts things - everybody in the ancient world believed that, because that's what they saw in their everyday experience. What Newton did was to realize that that...

Don't need to, I have read most of his works long back. What he is describing there is WRONG. I wouldn't blame him forr that, because he was working with very little data. What he has written there is what everybody in the ancient times believed - that everything falls towards the earth, because...

I'm not sure what your point here is. In your previous post you said magnetic fields can cause gravitational lensing, which is just plain wrong. That's not putting it in simple words - that's making a wrong statement. Anyway, as I said before, gravitational lensing has nothing whatsoever to do...

Sorry, but that is not how science works. It does not matter who said it - whether the statement can be supported by facts and logic is what matters. Even if Einstein said it, he would be wrong. That's the difference between science and other branches of human endeavour - science is objective...

Nor have I, but I'm always called christian or marxist by fanatic hindus here, hindu by muslims and Pakistanis, secular by both of them. (It's meant as an insult from both.) Nobody has accused me of being a jain yet.

I know. But it is an irrefutable fact. If a club threatens its members with death for leaving, the club cannot call itself the club of peace.

Yes, I know that. In Saudi Arabia, you would get the death penalty. And from what I gather, that's what islamic law states. So the sharia law that @Zarvan types want implemented in Pakistan would take away your freedom to convert out of islam. There is nothing peaceful about a religion that will...

In India? Why, what do you think follows?

I can assure you that you have no idea what you are talking about. For one thing, gravitaional lensing wasn't recently discovered - it's how Einstein's general theory of relativity was put on a solid empirical foundation, by Eddington's famous experiment in 1919. The phenomenon was then...

Then the "best you know" is not good enough. Nobody has the power to convert anybody by force. Neither the RSS, nor anybody else. Whoever told you that the RSS does that, lied to you. "Ghar wapasi" is consentual.