Is there some science other than modern for explaining matter?
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the question is that is there some science which explains the material things in a higher way as compared to what modern science does yes basically matter can be analyzed in different ways through different models in physics itself relativity physics is one model quantum physics is another model and the two have significant contradictions which are just not reconcilable but both models work in their own ways so matter basically a model is an explanatory framework we have a country, we have a map sometimes we can have one map which is political another map which is physical another map which is demographic like that you can have different maps so like that matter can be analyzed in different ways and that can lead to different analytical frameworks so modern science is one way of analyzing matter Sankhya is there in the in the past means there is another way of analyzing matter Vimamsa Vaisheshika was another way of analyzing matter so basically in the 11th canto in Uddhav Gita Krishna describes that in Sankhya also sometimes the matter is analyzed into 24 elements sometimes it’s analyzed into say 15 elements or 14 elements so Vishwanath Chakraborty’s commentary to Uddhav Gita says that Krishna is saying that he is pleased with the creativity of the sages in analyzing matter in different ways because they all, after this analysis they come to the conclusion that ultimately it all points to Krishna so yes matter can be analyzed in different ways and there are Sankhya, Vaisheshika are examples of frames in which of models of another way of analyzing matter