Researches Relevant to Theosophy
Geology
Date : March 27, 2022
Geologists have identified statistical evidence of a common cycle for geological events on Earth, every 27,5 million years. This includes major events like eruption, sea-level fluctuations, plate re-organization and . . . species extinctions, without any clues about the underlying cause.
Read more on Science alert
and the scientific paper on Science Direct
Physics
Date : March 21, 2022
Source : Phys.org
Four types of matter are known today, solid, liquid, gazeous and plasma. A fifth type of matter could have been identified through experiment : INFORMATION, described as the fundamental building block of the Universe, and it may have mass ! Physicist Dr. Melvin Vopson suggested that information has mass and that all elementary particles store information about themselves.
Read more on Phys.org
and the scientific paper on AIP Publishing
Biology
Date : February 23, 2022
Source : Science Alert
Recording the electrical activity of a dying human brain revealed specific wave forms (alpha waves) similar to memory recall.
H.P.B. (The Key to Theosophy, p.162) told that “As the man at the moment of death has a retrospective insight into the life he has led, so, at the moment he is reborn on to earth, the Ego, awakening from the state of Devachan, has a prospective vision of the life which awaits him, and realizes all the causes that have led to it.“
Read more on Science Alert
and the scientific paper on Frontiers
Cosmology
Date : January 20, 2022
Source : Quanta Magazine
Any single galaxy reveals the composition of an entire universe.
When simulating possible universes, researchers have discovered that a whole universe can be infer from the analysis of the amount of matter in just one of its galaxies.
This, if confirmed, would be a nice example of the “Hermetic Axiom” mentioned by H.P.B. – “As is the inner, so is the outer; as is the great, so is the small…“
Read more on : Quanta Magazine
and the Scientific Paper published on ArXiv