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It was about midday, 2nd of November 2006, when my wife sent me a link to an article in a Croatian paper about Mr. Zoran Ozimec who claimed that he found the cause of the Pioneer Anomaly. The article explained that Mr. Ozimec extended Newton’s theory of gravitation by discovering the link between the magnitude of the gravitational force and the subatomic composition of the masses in interaction. Hence, his and Newton’s formulas for gravitational force can differ up to 0.5%, which can mean a lot in the case of space travel trajectories. Mr. Ozimec also said that Einstein’s general theory of relativity will also have to be corrected, due to the fact that it uses Newton’s theory of gravity in its calculations.

I’ve immediately looked at his site, where he published some formulas and an example to support his claim, and I thought that if this is true (i.e. will stand up to the scientific scrutiny) it’s not just clever, it’s rather ingenious. I’ve congratulated him via email and he responded. Within few days we were deep into discussion and he was teaching me about this new stuff.

And then, when he was describing how the first particle is made by the action of two opposing forces, something clicked in my head and I remembered that I’ve read something very similar in Sri Yukteswar’s book The Holy Science. I’ve scanned the relevant pages and sent them to Zoran and he confirmed that Sutra 3 (in Chapter 1) is pretty much describing his new mathematical model.

I was over joyous when it became clear that finally science proved something with formulas, which religion expressed previously in words. Now, it was my turn to teach Zoran something, so we started discussing how are various physical concepts explained in Indian religious texts. In order to present these in a systematic and logical way, I’ve tried to summarize the cosmology as expounded by Kriya Yoga masters in the “Kriya Yoga Cosmology” article (was available on this site but is now superseded by the book Whence Do We Come?. Free PDF version of the second revision of the book is available here) .

During 2007, Zoran’s theory was scientifically checked and tested by an independent authority. During that time some assumptions were dropped (e.g. those described in the first paragraph above) but I believe that its main hypothesis, that the matter is a vibratory structure, stood up to all challenges. Of course, it still needs to be verified by the broader scientific community; but as it’s validity became more and more apparent, it confirmed to me the prophetic meaning of the following words of Paramhansa Yogananda: “Twentieth-century science is thus sounding like a page from the hoary Vedas. From science, then, if it must be so, let man learn the philosophic truth that there is no material universe; its wrap and woof is maya, illusion. Under analysis all its mirages of reality dissolve. As, one by one, the reassuring props of a physical cosmos crash beneath him, man dimly perceives his idolatrous reliance, his transgression of the Divine Command: ‘Thou shalt have no other gods before Me (Exodus 20:3).’” (from Yogananda’s book Autobiography of a Yogi).

It is the beginning of 2008 now, and Zoran is writing a paper about his research that will be published on his site (which will undergo a complete overhaul soon). I decided to use this space to publish my own view of the philosophical and religious background of his new theory, so here it is.

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