Ford project to bring NASA scientists, Vedic scholars together

September 07, 2005 20:06 IST


Scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will
join hands with Vedic scholars to explore mysteries of ancient Indian
cosmology at a Vedic Planetarium about 100 km from Kolkata, once the
initiative of Alfred Brush Ford, scion of the United States automobile
giant Ford, bears fruit.

Planned at Mayapur, an ancient seat of Vaishnavism and global
headquarters of the International Society for Krishna
Consciousness, the plantarium forms part of a Rs 283-crore economic
initiative by Ford, an ISKCON devotee.

Ford's company, ABF International, will promote the project along with a
village industries park and a tourism
hospitality complex at Mayapur visited by lakhs of tourists each year
from India and abroad.

"This will be unique project showcasing the scientific evidence on
ancient consmological descriptions of space. We
have conducted a series of research and found that the distance between
planets, as mentioned in Vedic cosmology, are
profoundly accurate with the findings of modern studies,'' said ABF
International senior vice-president Alister Taylor.

Recalling that Mayapur was a famous seat of scientific and cultural
learning in medieval Bengal, he said, "through
our reasearch, we realised that something very interesting (cosmological
studies) was happening here."

"At the planetarium's research centre, we will have NASA scientists
explaining the contributions of vedic cosmology to
the study of today's space science. There will be regular symposia on
the subject by astro-physicists," Taylor added.


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