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Btw: Fascinating analogy to the Multiverse interpretation of Quantum theory; ok, Vishnu is not in that interpretation yet, but physics is evolving, so there is still hope for the big guy (or for physics).
Hindu mythology and epics are so rich in imagination that you can fit any modern invention in them. A lot if Hindus are seduced by this vision that their ancestors had mastered advanced science. Maybe overcompensating for the white man's victory over India?
For example, the passage that Oppenheimer remembered about the light of a thousand suns, also says that when Bramhastra was unleashed on the battlefield, soldiers tried to save themselves by jumping in the river. That is enough for some Hindus to claim that our ancestors knew all about the atomic weapons.
The dome of a Hindu temple is shaped a bit like a spaceship and has been called Vimana (spaceship/aircraft) since way before the white people created airplanes and spaceships. I did not make up the Vaikuntha myth I cited earlier, many saints and holy men are said to climb into heaven in Vishnu's Vimana in their earthly bodies. A (tiny) bit like Enoch in the OT.
Ramayana was written in the first millennium or earlier, and has Rakshsas and eventually Rama flying in Pushpak Vimana.
I could go on, point is, just like Arthur C Clarke imagining satellites before they existed, my ancestors imagined many strange and wonderful things, some of which came to be, and some not. It means nothing. They did not have the math and science necessary to convert these ideas into reality.
