It is mentioned in the epic Ramayana that Ram Setu was built by the son of Lord Vishwakarma when Lord Rama needed to cross the sea to reach Lanka. The bridge known as Adam's Bridge is said to be built of floating stones. The epic mentions 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 one of them was brought to Patna to prove the evidence of Rama and the bridge. The proof was given in the form of this video :
Even after watching this video many people won't believe it. And I can understand it. It defies logic and reason. But is it actually so? How can this mystery be explained?
About 4 years back, I was in Rameswaram and in one of the several hundreds of temples, I saw not one, but 12 such stones! They were of various shapes and sizes.
Here is a possible explanation : Before I start, I mention it very clearly that the following explanation, though not verified through thorough experiments, is supported by some of the observations that can be made by watching the video itself and some other experiments I did myself.
Any object when immersed in a liquid would displace some part of the liquid. This is so because when it is immersed in the liquid, it would occupy some of the volume that was earlier occupied by the liquid.
Any object floats in any liquid when the weight of the liquid, displaced by the fraction of the object immersed in the liquid, is equal to the entire weight of the object itself. Thus the fraction of the object immersed in the liquid depends on the relative densities of object and the liquid. For example when ice floats in water, approximately 90% of the volume of ice is immersed in water and only 10% remains outside water.
These stones might be special in the sense that they might be hollow from inside. They may have some air cavities inside them, so that the weight of the water displaced by them is more than their own weight. These air cavities need not be uniformly located inside these stones.
Logic behind the explanation :
I'll mention about the two surfaces of the stone. First surface ( which I'll denote by surface A ) has "Ram Setu Shila" written over it in Hindi in red. The other surface is opposite to this surface ( I'll denote it by surface B).
If we watch the video carefully, we'll notice that the weight of a stone of the size as shown in the video would be definitely more than 15 Kgs. A stone of this size would weigh not less than 30 Kgs. (Assuming the normal density that we observe in most of the commonly found stones). It is highly improbable that the density of the stone material would be lesser than that of water. Another observation that supports this explanation is that the stone shown in the video always floats with surface A exposed to the viewer and the surface B totally immersed in water. This suggests that the stone is not uniformly built and that the stone has higher average density near surface B as compared to the average density near surface A. If it were not so, then the stone would float even with surface A immersed. But it automatically realigns itself so that when it floats, surface B is immersed and surface A is exposed to viewer. ( This conclusion is drawn on the basis of the fact that according to Physics, stone would always float in such a position/configuartion where its potential energy is minimum.)
I did this experiment myself with stones in Rameswaram. All the stones there would also float with one particular surface always immersed in water and the other one always exposed to the viewer.
Thus we can say with 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 (surface A in the case of stone of the video.)
I could have verified this theory myself by breaking one of the stones that I found in Rameswaram and looking for air cavities inside the stone. But had I attempted to do so, the temple priests would have broken my head :P
23 comments:
its a true fact ...??
i thought it was just a myth...
n it has a scientific explanation too...good goin mate...
added your blog to my blog list mate...thanx for addin mine
hmm...good logic..but we Indians think and behave differently, thats why many MNC brands fail to understand Indian consumer, my views on the same , through marketing and consumer example
quite impressive man[though it had lots of physics!]... so a saying that everything has an explanation is true!!!.....
thnx for comments people :)
Gud Work,i agreed with this Theory... but Viraj tell me do you have the valid Theory or Reason,like why did such stones founded only at the site of Rameshwaram,not anywhere else in our India even in this whole world?? we cant say that its just a co-inccidence,thats it!!..No!!
why such Amazing and unique formation of stones have done only at Rameshwaram site,not anywhere else in this whole world?? Is there any link between epic Ramayana and these stones?? or it might be possible Ramayana was written after founded these stones...?? ofcourse Not!!!
Dont you think there is some reality in the words of epic of Ramayana? the link between such stones and Ramayana? YES!!!
Believe me,there is one Supreme Power,Father of all,...Itz GOD.He is the Biggest & magical engineer. He created everything,everything is Amazing,we can see the beauty of his creation...n left behind valid scientific reasons in all his creations.Isnt he so Smart??? He is the Magical creator of everything...Believe it or Not,but i do Believe him.
in my last words: Its not my question and concern why such stones are Floating,but my Question is why such stones were founded only in Rameshawaram,not anywhere else in this World..???
can anybody answer me of this question......
Well smartyamar, certainly there is an explanation why this stones only appear in this corner of the world. Or, perhaps, they do appear anywhere else and we just don’t know about it. In North Ireland you may also find a rock formation that it is unique in the world - The Giant’s Causeway (http://www.northantrim.com/giantscauseway.htm). Now, imagine a stone giving birth to another stone! Amazed ? Just take a look at http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/565431329BJxLvw Arouca is just a hundred kilometres from my hometown. And, yes, this thing has a scientific explanation. As you may see, there are a lot of unique natural phenomena scattered around the world. And, yes, Viraj observations and conclusions seem to be correct.
Very nice explanation. But the geological factor for the PORAL stones(stones that were used to build the bridge found by scientists) to appear from nowhere at that particular place(between Srilanka and India) is not explained.
Geological researchers and Scientist after years of research concluded that in the formation of layers on the ocean bed, these PORAL stones were found within the layers. These rock cannot occur naturally in the sea, they occur only on land/hard surface.
Moreover when they digged down the ocean floor they found Sandstone(3Meters),then Poral rocks and then hard rock so on..
This layer formation is not naturally possible.It is was also found that there was a distinctive straight line pattern (like a bridge) across.
Though ur explanation for the floating of the rock/stones from scientific POV is 100% correct, it is also impossible to deny these facts.
Thanks for sharing ur Wisdom
Jai Sreeman Narayana
Uh. Look up Pumice.
even if the stone floated, by the above logic. How did people manage to walk on it?? could it withstand the weight of people walking on it also??? Was it not washed away by the water currents??
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i believe from the little knowledge i have in biology, it is dried up part of coral reef with calcium deposits and surely lots of air cavities or spaces once used to store food, when it was alive...i believe it is some sort of dried up calcium deposited sponge kind of creature....citation needed!!
Use simple scientific logic of archimedes principal:
if the weight of water displaced by the stone is more than the weight of the stone then stone will float.
Just by looking at the video stone's weight is 15kg and I don't think the weight of displaced water is more than 15 kg.
If this is so then IT IS MIRACLE! Jai Shree Ram
You guys obviously haven't heard of Pumice stones that CAN float on water without having any mythical name written on them....
And they ARE found in places other than INDIA, namely New Zealand..
Look up Pumice in Google & you will see where else they are found.
Even if, I don't think people could walk on it....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KRxel0FEkY
saw the stones. definitely coral, not pumice. water is probably extremely saline, dense enough to make the rocks float? coral does not naturally float. Alternative is that they were hollowed out then plugged. Real explantion of Rama's land bridge is that it probably dates to about 9,000 years ago when sea level was lower due to expanded ice sheets at poles. Later sea level rise eradicated land bridge requiring "explanation" in folk mythology. Similar land bridges connected asia and alaska, australia and indonesia.
saw the stones. definitely coral, not pumice. water is probably extremely saline, dense enough to make the rocks float? coral does not naturally float. Alternative is that they were hollowed out then plugged. Real explantion of Rama's land bridge is that it probably dates to about 9,000 years ago when sea level was lower due to expanded ice sheets at poles. Later sea level rise eradicated land bridge requiring "explanation" in folk mythology. Similar land bridges connected asia and alaska, australia and indonesia.
MO,
The date of ramayana cannot be 9,000 years ago.In mahabharata ,there is a mention of rama,which says ramayana happene before mahabharata.And the lost an mystical city of swaraka-the city of kirshna(mentione all over mahabharata) has been discovered and dated as 32,000 years ago.
can you please build such a stone considering all your scientific explanation please? To break is easy, to build is difficult!!
Yes of-course this could be a marvel of ancient days scientific knowledge!!!
to me i think such stones are special features that God created and leaves behind scientific explanation to deceive ourselves, eg two rivers flow same direction one sweet and other poison but don't mix ,then we borrow vague science, i think because of less density the could not keep below seas.
Thank you for sharing....
good explanation...
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