FLOATING STONES OF RAMESHWARAM
The Hindu belief that Ram Setu was built by Neel and Nala as architects ordered by Lord Rama to cross the sea to enter Sri Lanka. It was completed in five days by employing 10 million Vanaras(monkeys). The bridge is said to be 1.7 million years old. It is 30 km long and 3 km wide. It Starts from Dhanushkodi tip of India’s Pamban Island and ends at Sri Lanka’s Mannar Island. The sea in these areas is very shallow. It is said that whenever the name of Lord Rama was written over any stone, it started to float in the sea water. Some such stones are said to be scattered at Rameswaram during the Tsunami, and they are taken to various places to prove, and they were indeed floated on water. But I don't believe the part where the name was the reason to float. So let see what modern science say about this. And hey, it may have some drawbacks, but it makes some sense. • Some Geologists says it's a naturally occurred event and some say the stones of Ram Setu are coral formation using NASA satellite images. But this coral formation theory is not solid. Corals are made of calcium carbonate and they are denser than water. They cannot float, and this formation is not seen anywhere except Ram Setu. • But NASA chose to distance itself from any religious interpretations and says, " The image may well be ours, but their interpretation is certainly not ours. Remote sensing images or photographs from orbit cannot provide direct information about the origin or age of a chain of islands, and certainly, cannot determine whether humans were involved in producing any of the patterns seen.
THEORY 1:
I read this in a blog. It sound totally reasonable at first. In short below, Let start from the scientific fact that if air is trapped within silica, it would look like a stone but would be very light and float.Another example is Ice.When put into a liquid, ice floats on liquid & after some time it sinks.Another example is of “Pumice” stone. Pumice is the hardened foam of lava when it comes out of a volcano. The inside of a volcano has very high pressure and can be as hot as 1600 Celcius. When the lava comes out of the volcano, it meets the cool air or sea water. Then air and water that was mixed in the lava bubble out. Due to temperature differences, it freezes and so bubbles trapped inside them.Hence weight is reduced, so it floats. Dense stones do not float on water. But because pumice is full of air bubbles, it is less dense than water. So, in the beginning, it will float. But in time, water will enter the bubbles driving out the air. Slowly, the pumice sinks.This also explains why the Ram Setu is under water today. Pumice doesn’t float forever. But you don't see volcanoes near Rameswaram. So if you visit a volcanic island (like Barren Island in the Andamans, or Anak Krakatau in Indonesia), you can see several acres of pumice around the shore. Due to Tsunami in 2004, these stones washed towards shore, and people begin to see floating stones. Drawback: Some floating stones of Rameshwaram are not light weighted like pumice rocks and doesn’t have the chemical composition similar to pumice rocks. Also, the color of the pumice rocks is white or creamish but there are many black floating stones in Rameswaram.
THEORY 2 :
This one also I read in a blog and it is the very reasonable explanation I have found. In a brief, it seems in all the videos where it showed stone floats on the water there is something common. One surface of the stone always immersed in water and another surface is always exposed to the viewer. Even if tried to change it, it aligns itself with the previously said manner. This explains that stone is not uniformly built and the immersed surface part of stone has higher average density compared to the exposed part where average density is lower. This conclusion is drawn by the fact that according to Physics, the stone would always float in such a position/configuration where its potential energy is minimum.) Thus we can say with a reasonable level of confidence that the stones don't have uniform density and that more air cavities must be located near the surface which is exposed to the viewer when the stone floats.The famous NASA satellite footage from 2002. The US scientific body, however, chose to distance itself from any religious interpretation. NASA said, "The image may well be ours, but their interpretation is certainly not ours. Remote sensing images or photographs from orbit cannot provide direct information about the origin or age of a chain of islands, and certainly, cannot determine whether humans were involved in producing any of the patterns seen."
REALITY OF RAMA’S JOURNEY:
Well, it will not be one but many personal expeditions to count that have tried tracing Rama’s foot prints from Ayodhya to Rameshwaram. As many as 195 places were thoroughly explored to know the truth. These places included ashrams of famous Rishis on river banks and ancient memorials testifying to his arrival during his sojourn across India during his 14-year exile. There are further proofs in Ayodhya Kand, Aranya Kand, Kishkindha Kand and Sunder Kand. A map from later centuries also refers to Ram Setu as Adam’s bridge. Also, the Geological Survey of India’s report named the Project Rameshwaram and termed this bridge to be used as a means to travel between India and Sri Lanka some about 7,000-10,000 years ago.
GOUTHAMI.S
TRAVEL TINKERS.
The Hindu belief that Ram Setu was built by Neel and Nala as architects ordered by Lord Rama to cross the sea to enter Sri Lanka. It was completed in five days by employing 10 million Vanaras(monkeys). The bridge is said to be 1.7 million years old. It is 30 km long and 3 km wide. It Starts from Dhanushkodi tip of India’s Pamban Island and ends at Sri Lanka’s Mannar Island. The sea in these areas is very shallow. It is said that whenever the name of Lord Rama was written over any stone, it started to float in the sea water. Some such stones are said to be scattered at Rameswaram during the Tsunami, and they are taken to various places to prove, and they were indeed floated on water. But I don't believe the part where the name was the reason to float. So let see what modern science say about this. And hey, it may have some drawbacks, but it makes some sense. • Some Geologists says it's a naturally occurred event and some say the stones of Ram Setu are coral formation using NASA satellite images. But this coral formation theory is not solid. Corals are made of calcium carbonate and they are denser than water. They cannot float, and this formation is not seen anywhere except Ram Setu. • But NASA chose to distance itself from any religious interpretations and says, " The image may well be ours, but their interpretation is certainly not ours. Remote sensing images or photographs from orbit cannot provide direct information about the origin or age of a chain of islands, and certainly, cannot determine whether humans were involved in producing any of the patterns seen.
THEORY 1:
I read this in a blog. It sound totally reasonable at first. In short below, Let start from the scientific fact that if air is trapped within silica, it would look like a stone but would be very light and float.Another example is Ice.When put into a liquid, ice floats on liquid & after some time it sinks.Another example is of “Pumice” stone. Pumice is the hardened foam of lava when it comes out of a volcano. The inside of a volcano has very high pressure and can be as hot as 1600 Celcius. When the lava comes out of the volcano, it meets the cool air or sea water. Then air and water that was mixed in the lava bubble out. Due to temperature differences, it freezes and so bubbles trapped inside them.Hence weight is reduced, so it floats. Dense stones do not float on water. But because pumice is full of air bubbles, it is less dense than water. So, in the beginning, it will float. But in time, water will enter the bubbles driving out the air. Slowly, the pumice sinks.This also explains why the Ram Setu is under water today. Pumice doesn’t float forever. But you don't see volcanoes near Rameswaram. So if you visit a volcanic island (like Barren Island in the Andamans, or Anak Krakatau in Indonesia), you can see several acres of pumice around the shore. Due to Tsunami in 2004, these stones washed towards shore, and people begin to see floating stones. Drawback: Some floating stones of Rameshwaram are not light weighted like pumice rocks and doesn’t have the chemical composition similar to pumice rocks. Also, the color of the pumice rocks is white or creamish but there are many black floating stones in Rameswaram.
THEORY 2 :
This one also I read in a blog and it is the very reasonable explanation I have found. In a brief, it seems in all the videos where it showed stone floats on the water there is something common. One surface of the stone always immersed in water and another surface is always exposed to the viewer. Even if tried to change it, it aligns itself with the previously said manner. This explains that stone is not uniformly built and the immersed surface part of stone has higher average density compared to the exposed part where average density is lower. This conclusion is drawn by the fact that according to Physics, the stone would always float in such a position/configuration where its potential energy is minimum.) Thus we can say with a reasonable level of confidence that the stones don't have uniform density and that more air cavities must be located near the surface which is exposed to the viewer when the stone floats.The famous NASA satellite footage from 2002. The US scientific body, however, chose to distance itself from any religious interpretation. NASA said, "The image may well be ours, but their interpretation is certainly not ours. Remote sensing images or photographs from orbit cannot provide direct information about the origin or age of a chain of islands, and certainly, cannot determine whether humans were involved in producing any of the patterns seen."
REALITY OF RAMA’S JOURNEY:
Well, it will not be one but many personal expeditions to count that have tried tracing Rama’s foot prints from Ayodhya to Rameshwaram. As many as 195 places were thoroughly explored to know the truth. These places included ashrams of famous Rishis on river banks and ancient memorials testifying to his arrival during his sojourn across India during his 14-year exile. There are further proofs in Ayodhya Kand, Aranya Kand, Kishkindha Kand and Sunder Kand. A map from later centuries also refers to Ram Setu as Adam’s bridge. Also, the Geological Survey of India’s report named the Project Rameshwaram and termed this bridge to be used as a means to travel between India and Sri Lanka some about 7,000-10,000 years ago.
GOUTHAMI.S
TRAVEL TINKERS.
Learned many things from this blog and it is very much useful for me
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