Exploring the proposed Microvita framework, its relationship to the Action Principle of physics, quantum-field theory, biological organization, biochemistry and interdisciplinary scientific inquiry.
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Department of Microvita Sciences
The Department of Microvita Sciences of The Gazette of Medical Sciences (The GMS) provides an interdisciplinary forum for examining the Microvita concept introduced by Indian philosopher P. R. Sarkar. The Department encourages scientific, mathematical and philosophical investigation into proposed relationships among fundamental physical processes, biological organization and the emergence of living systems. Contributions may evaluate the theoretical foundations, internal consistency and potential empirical implications of Microvita-related hypotheses without presupposing their scientific validation.
The Department welcomes theoretical research concerning the Action Principle, variational methods, quantum mechanics, quantum-field theory, field self-interaction, bifurcation, resonance, symmetry and mathematical representations of physical systems. Particular interest is given to clearly formulated models that establish their assumptions, explain their mathematical derivations and identify how their predictions could be compared with established experimental findings.
Connections between physics and biological complexity constitute another area of inquiry. Relevant contributions may investigate molecular self-organization, biochemistry, genetics, cellular processes, nonlinear biological dynamics, molecular evolution and origin-of-life questions. The Department encourages efforts to translate conceptual proposals into explicit, testable models that can be critically examined using recognized scientific methods.
The Department also considers exploratory work relating Microvita concepts to medicine, agriculture, environmental systems and other interdisciplinary applications. Submissions may include theoretical analyses, comparative reviews, computational simulations and carefully designed experimental investigations. Proposed medical applications must distinguish theoretical possibility from demonstrated clinical efficacy, and must not present speculative mechanisms as established facts.
Original research, theoretical papers, methodological studies, critical reviews, perspectives, short communications, editorials and scholarly correspondence are welcomed. The Department values conceptual clarity, logical consistency, transparent assumptions, engagement with relevant scientific literature, reproducibility where applicable and constructive critical debate. Contributions that identify falsifiable predictions or feasible routes toward empirical evaluation are particularly encouraged.
Despite breakthrough advances in fields such as paleobiology, biochemistry and genetics, the deeper origin and nature of life remain enigmatic. For example, the swiftness at which beneficial mutations appear to have spread in an entire population (fixation) is unexplained.
Techniques such as fast sequencing and Crispr-Cas, while showing great insight and skill, at the same time reveal once more the perplexing complexity of the machinery of life at a fundamental level, for which there exists no integrative approach or model.
It is a trend especially in science, to consider that which we can’t detect directly as not evidence based, and therefore irrelevant. We forget however that an obvious and seemingly visceral concept such as “energy” is entirely abstract. Even few physicists realize that energy cannot be measured – it is an inferred, entirely abstract quantity that turns out to be conserved during a physical process or interaction1.
A yet greater and more comprehensive abstraction than energy, widely introduced in physics but less known to the general public is that of “action”, that is, the Action Principle (resp. Principle of Least Action). In the words of Jean le Rond d’Alembert, an 18th. century French philosopher, “If one could grasp the whole Universe from one viewpoint, it would appear, if it is permitted to say this, as a unique fact and a great truth”2.
The Action Principle presents just such a grasp of the Universe, allowing to formulate laws of physics purely based on mathematics. However, famous physicist Louis de Broglie, in his ground breaking and Nobel winning 1924 paper noted: “Nevertheless, action is a very abstract notion, and as a consequence of much reflection on light quanta and the photoelectric effect, we have returned to statements on energy as fundamental, and ceased to question why action plays a large role in so many issues”3.
This, in fact is a visionary statement on how physics, and arguably science in general has developed over the century since.
Our present challenge is therefore to extend this idea, that same “grasp on the Universe”, not only to physics, but to include life itself.
Such a renaissance of the Action Principle, especially (but not exclusively) aimed at biochemistry and genetics, as well as psychology and sociology, was proposed by the contemporary Indian philosopher and social revolutionary Shrii P.R. Sarkar (1921-1990), which he referred to as “Microvita”.
It would be fair to recognize that besides the very detailed, purely “technical” aspects Sarkar applied a considerable deal of psychology obviously to break away from the prevailing (scientific) doctrine which is motivated by seeking self-consistency rather than seeking truth. P.R. Sarkar’s Microvita Theory, which is based on vastly deepened and extended application of the Action Principle is, in his own words, a “new line of thinking”, both with regard to philosophy and physics, and evidently with regard to bio-chemistry.
It’s ramifications, challenges and opportunities in said fields are many and far-reaching, as detailed in Sarkar’s collected discourses, “Microvitum in a Nutshell”4. Sarkar empathically states that microvita should be studied in the mind (intuitional science) and in the lab (physical science).
Researchers are invited and encouraged to submit papers to help forward Microvita Science and its practical uses in said fields, as well as in medicine, agriculture and environmental care. The proposed properties of microvita (referred below) can serve as a framework and guideline.
A physics-oriented paper5, published by The Gazette of Medical Sciences, shows how an extended interpretation of the Action Principle (through a moderate re-interpretation of the quantum field’s self-interaction) could explain not only mass but also structure in the sub-atomic and atomic world.
Sarkar proposed various types (positive, negative, neutral), categories (detectability levels) and classes (functionalities) of microvita. The various types are depicted below.
The detectibility levels include microvita:
The various functionalities of microvita specifically in the realm of human life were exemplified by Sarkar through so called “luminous bodies” (disembodied minds). This is arguably the field of para-psychology. This could be interpreted in that if during life the mind is colored and dominated by a certain propensity closely associated with a specific microvitum, this coherent state will remain intact for some time after physical death until its momentum is exhausted.
The graphic at the top illustrates the “bifurcation” at the most fundamental level of creation, in this case related to the hidden or simultaneous cycle (Purusa in philosophy). Research shows how this invariant, primordial state evolves external matter waves and structure such as the “inital form of carbon atoms”. It is proposed that this is where “an omega of mathematics coincides with an omega of biochemistry” [P.R. Sarkar]
1, Noether, Emmy. Invariante Variationsprobleme; Nachr. v. d. Ges. d. Wiss. zu Göttingen; 1918. Translation Invariant Variationproblems by M.A. Tavel; 1971.
2. Coopersmith, Jennifer. Quoting d’Alembert in The Lazy Universe; 2017; Oxford University Press, New York.
3. Broglie, Louis de. Recherches sur la Théorie des Quanta. Ann. Phys. 10e serie, t.III; 1925. Translation On the Theory of Quanta by A. F. Kracklauer; 2004.
4. Sarkar, P.R. Microvita in a Nutshell. Collected discourses; 1989. Ananda Marga Publications, Calcutta.
5. Bovenkamp, F.A. van den; The Hydrogen Atom as an Integrative Eigenstate of the Bifurcating Quantum Field. The Gazette of Medical Sciences; Aug. 2020.
Frank van den Bovenkamp
The present paper proposes an interpretation of quantum mechanics whereby the matter wave and its eigenstates are formed through an underlying, bifurcative self-interaction of the quantum field. Subsequently it will be shown that based on the latter the proton-to-electron mass ratio can accurately be calculated.
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