A Peep into Void

About the Book

How did the universe come into being? What banged in the so-called Big Bang? Are the methods of science adequate for a complete understanding of reality? How are the seemingly different entities like space, time, matter, and energy related to one another? Is there a common thread that runs through them? How can the elusive entity of consciousness be explained? If you have been curious about these questions, this book will be of interest to you. It covers a wide range of such questions and makes an attempt to answer them through the disciplines as diverse as physics and mathematics, logic and philosophy, quantum theory and consciousness, and so on. With a childlike curiosity, the author leads you to the questions about the origin of the universe and traces it to nothingness or zero. It is the reinterpretation of zero or nothingness that is the central theme of this book in its quest of understanding the reality. It is a chronicle of the evolution of the author’s thoughts from split of zero to infinite instability of zero, which is the secret behind the origin and existence of the universe.

About the Author

Durgatosh Pandey is a well-known cancer surgeon based in New Delhi. His profession is medicine, but he has maintained what he calls an amateur interest in all fields of knowledge, including physics, philosophy, and spirituality. Despite his busy schedule in medical practice, he has followed his passion in exploring the limits of the known and beyond into the realms of the unknown. This book is a product of the childlike curiosity about the mysteries of nature that he has relentlessly pursued. He considers his period of childhood that he spent in his boarding school, Ramakrishna Mission Vidyapith at Deoghar, as the most fruitful phase of his life. This period shaped him into the individual that he is today and gave initial direction to his intellectual pursuits. He has lived and worked at several places, like New Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai, and Varanasi in India and briefly in Singapore and the USA. Durgatosh Pandey is married and currently lives in New Delhi with his mother, wife, and two kids.