Antimatter

Modern materialistic science has discovered what it terms antimatter, dating back at least to the experiments of Drs. Emilio Segre and Owen Chamberlain in 1955 and 1956. But the anti-material concepts of such wranglers of gross materialism are generally defective because they do not recognize either the scope of matter (Nature) itself, nor can they perceive what the reverse of the material condition might be. There are many theories regarding different types of antimatter-universes in variant vibratory fields, galaxies composed of atomic particles opposite in magnetic properties to our own, even one brilliant concept of a universe lying, as it were, beyond the horizon of the speed of light-but all of these types of "antimatter" are actually only variations of matter. They are not truly anti-material, because they rest on imperfect analyses of what matter itself is to begin with.

All the same, there are three generally recognizable points widely agreed upon, which must be considered in a discussion of antimatter. These are that 1) there is an anti-material atom or particle which is another form of energy, but which possesses qualities the reverse of the material atom; 2) there is an anti-material world of which we have some kind of experience; and 3) these two different worlds may clash at a certain period, which may bring annihilation to both.

Out of these three items, we students of theistic science agree with numbers 1) and 2), but we cannot agree with the third, because although matter as it is constituted is subject to annihilation, antimatter-if it is free from all material symptoms-must be also free from annihilation by its very nature of existence. If matter is destructible or divisible, antimatter must be indestructible and indivisible.

We shall try now to discuss these three points from the angle of authentic scriptural vision.

The most scientific, authentic and recognized scripture of the world is the Veda. The Veda-originally one-has been divided into four-Sama, Yajur, Rig and Atharva. The subject matter of the Vedas is very difficult and dry for ordinary understanding, so to make these grave matters more easily comprehensible the four Vedas are again explained in the history of Mahabharata and in the eighteen Puranas. The Ramayana is a historical epic which also contains all the necessary information of the Vedas.

Therefore the four Vedas, the original Ramayana (by Sri Valmiki), the Mahabharata and the Puranas are all Vedic literature. The Upanishads are parts of the four Vedas, and the Vedanta Sutra is the cream of the Vedas. And to summarize all these Vedic writings, The Bhagavad-gita is accepted as the cream of all Upanishads and the elementary explanation of the Vedanta Sutra. The conclusion is that from The Bhagavad-gita alone you can have the essence of all the Vedas, as the Gita is spoken by Lord Sri Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He descends to this material world from the anti-material sphere from time to time just to give such complete information of that superior form of energy.

The superior form of energy of the Personality of Godhead is described in the Gita as "Para Prakriti," superior nature. The scientists have discovered that there are various forms of matter, but the true concept of matter and antimatter is described most perfectly in The Bhagavad-gita as two forms of energy. Nature is an energy which creates the material world, and the same energy in her superior form creates the anti-material world. And living entities belong to the superior energy group. The inferior energy or material energy is called "Apara Prakriti," the lower nature. So, in the Gita, the creative energy is presented in two forms, namely Apara and Para Prakritis, superior and inferior natures.