Guest guest Posted January 20, 2000 Report Share Posted January 20, 2000 Dandavat pranams! I think Sadaputa Dasa has written a paper or a book on this matter. I am sure if he is contacted he'll share his views with us. Please post here any news on this subject. Ys, Gauri das > Hare Krsna. > Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. > > We all know that many of Srila Prabhupada's disciples left the movement > immediately following the release of the Fifth Canto, due to mass > unacceptance of the Vedic descriptions of the universe and planetary > arrangements there. > > Do any of the learned scholars present have any data reconciling those > statements with the findings of recent space explorations? > > With the speed of light being accepted by the International Astornomical > Union System of Astronomical Constants (1976) as 186 282 statute miles per > second, for light to travel from the Sun to one side of the universe,as > stated in SB 5.20.43 to be 25 koti yojanas (or 2 billion miles, or 2 000 > 000 000 miles by US standards (the UK billion is 1 followed by 12 zeros)), > would take approximately 3 hours. Obviously in terms of light years not a > great distance. > > To quote Comptons Encyclopaedia: > "On clear nights the Milky Way, a wispy band of faint white light, > stretches roughly north and south across the sky. Actually, the band is a > cluster of myriads of stars called a galaxy. Our sun is only one of them. > The entire galaxy is lens shaped, with its center toward the constellation > Sagittarius (the Archer), almost 33,000 light-years away. The galaxy is > about 15,000 light-years thick at the center and about 100,000 light-years > across. It contains more than 100 billion stars. As far as powerful > telescopes can see, there are some tens of billions of other galaxies, > spaced on the average about one million light-years apart. One of the > nearest is the great galaxy in Andromeda. It is shaped like a giant > pinwheel; and it rotates about its axis. Our galaxy is similar, and the > sun makes one trip round approximately every 200 million years. " > > Your servant, > Vraja Kumara das Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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