Theos-Talk Archives (January 2008 Message tt00174)

How Did Albert Einstein Intuit (Grok) E=mc2?
Answer:

That's easy... He looked it up in The Secret Doctrine. (1)


Here's the Background:

On the 20th Anniversary of Einstein's death (1975), physicist Richard 
Feynman was quoted in Time magazine as saying, "I cannot understand 
how he arrived at the intuition (2) leading to E-mc^2, considering 
the level of scientific knowledge at the time."(1905)

A niece of Einstein reported that a copy of the Secret Doctrine was 
always on his desk.(3) Another witness, Jack Brown, reports similarly 
in an article, "I visited Professor Einstein." (4)


Here's the story as I got it:

Sometime, around the mid 1970s, I was attending a lecture by a 
foreign visitor at the United Lodge of Theosophists in New York 
City... After the talk, a group of ULT associates and I met the 
speaker, Mrs. Wadia, the elderly British born widow of a well known 
Indian theosophical writer and lecturer. She was accompanied by 
several other Indian women dressed in Saris.

Mrs. Wadia, or one of the other women with her (I do not remember 
their names) told us that when she was at the Theosophical Publishing 
Company in Adyar during the mid 1960s, she met Einstein's niece, who 
said she had come to the TPC headquarters to offer their library the 
book that was at the bedside of her uncle when he died. Mrs. Wadia 
(or the speaker) said that she and several others at the Adyar Lodge 
gratefully accepted the worn out and dog-eared copy of the first 
edition ofThe Secret Doctrine - The Synthesis of Science, Religion 
and Philosophy by H. P. Blavatsky.

I asked whether she actually handled and opened the book. She 
answered that she had. When I specifically asked if there were any 
margin notes, she said that the book was heavily notated and 
underlined, and that the margins were covered with scribbles and 
other markings that none of them could make heads nor tails of. (What 
would we give to get a look at them?) When someone else asked what 
happened to the book, she said, it was still in the library of the 
Lodge in Adyar.

Whether it could still be found there today, is anybody's guess.. (If 
anyone gets to read its "scribbles" as a result of this lead, please 
let me know.)

This information, however, led me to re-evaluate the "Secret 
Doctrine" which I had been studying for the past many years (and 
which was already heavily underlined and margin notated -- but mostly 
of philosophical, occult, symbolical, and comparative religion 
significance).

I immediately Purchased a new facsimile edition of The Secret 
Doctrine (The Theosophy Company, Los Angeles) with the intention of 
starting all over... But, this time, specifically to study its deeper 
scientific teachings with reference to the linkages between 
consciousness, mind and their associated biological organs and 
organisms (since most of its teachings in cosmology and physics had 
already been culled and expanded by Einstein, Planck, Millikan, 
Heisenberg, Bohr, Gell-Mann, Feynman, Hawkings and many others).

My continuing study since that time (and the margin notes it 
engendered) led me ultimately to the present holographic 
consciousness theory of Astro Biological Coenergetics and the 
beginnings of a new scientific paradigm and technology derived from 
it -- that I am still working on... Hopefully, "next year (or the 
year after :-), Jerusalem." ;-)>

Leon H. Maurer
New York, October 29, 1997

P.S. I'm not sure if my letter to Feynman in 1975, (telling him where 
Einstein got his insight) pointed him to the SD. (He never 
responded.) But it wasn't really necessary for his own work... Since, 
Einstein (and Millikan, for another -- but that's another story) had 
already been there. :-)>

"You can tell the seriousness of a scientific theory by how much fun 
the discoverer had in writing about it."     -A.N.Onymous (or Al. 
Einstein :)




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Notes:

(1) The Secret Doctrine - The Synthesis of Science Religion and 
Theosophy, H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophy Company, London, Madras, 
1888

(2) "...mass or substance is equivalent to energy and that time and 
space are integral parts of the substance-energy continuum...," 
Cranston, S. L., HPB;: the extraordinary life and influence of Helena 
Blavatsky, founder of the modern theosophical movement, G. P. 
Putnam's Sons, 1993, 434; ibid, Ref: Notes, Part 7, Note 21, 606" A. 
March and I.M Freeman, The New World of Physics, 1963; quoted in 
Sunrise, November 1975, 81"

(3) "Iverson Harris, The Journal of San Diego History, San Diego 
(California) Historical Society, Summer, 1974, 16. In checking this 
information it was learned that a niece of Einstein's, in India 
during the 1960s, paid a visit to the headquarters of the 
Theosophical Society at Adyar. She explained that she knew nothing of 
theosophy or the society, but had to see the place because her uncle 
always had a copy of Madame Blavatsky's Secret Doctrine  on his desk. 
The individual to whom the niece spoke was Eunice Layton, a world 
renowned theosophical lecturer who happened to be at the reception 
desk when she arrived. While in Ojai, California, in 1982, Sylvia 
Cranston met Mrs. Eunice Layton, who confirmed the story." (Cranston, 
S. L., HPB;: the extraordinary life and influence of Helena 
Blavatsky, founder of the modern theosophical movement, G. P. 
Putnam's Sons, 1993, Notes, Preface, Note 11, 557)

(4) "Ohai Valley News, Ohai, California, September 28, 1983." (ibid, 
Notes, Preface, Note 12., 558.)

Related Secret Doctrine references

Some references pertaining to Einstein's theory of relativity 
(E=MC2), Heisenberg's theory of indeterminacy, holographic universe, 
etc. From The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky, 1888, The 
Theosophical Press, Adyar, India (facsimile reprint, 1964, The 
Theosophy Company)

Book-Page Text 
1-29 "Everything that exists has only a relative, not an absolute 
reality, since the appearance which the hidden noumenon assumes for 
any observer depends on his power of cognition" (Ref: Indeterminacy 
theorem) but all things are relatively real, for the cogniser is also 
a reflection, and the things cognised are therefore as real to him as 
himself." 
1-45 "Metaphysical abstractions are the only conceivable cause of 
physical concretions a process of conversion of metaphysics into 
physics, analogous to that by which steam can be condensed into 
water, and the water into ice." (Ref: General laws of Phase Change 
Also Chaos, Complexity, Universal Inflation, Symmetry, etc.) 
1-75 "... there is but one universal element which is infinite, 
unborn, undying all the rest-as in the world of phenomena-are but so 
many various differentiated aspects and transformations (correlations 
as they are now called)" (Ref: Conservation of Matter/Energy, Special 
Relativity, General Relativity, etc.) 
1-77 "It (occult philosophy) indicates existence of things 
imperceptible to our physical senses" (Ref: all sub-molecular physics 
and chemistry) 
1-83 "Brahmâ (Sanscrit name of precursor of Universe) "expands" and 
becomes the Universe, woven out of its own substance." (Ref: Big Bang 
theory, Inflationary theory, String Theory, etc.) 
1-120 "The radical unity of the ultimate essence of each constituent 
part of compounds in nature is the one fundamental Law" (Ref: Unified 
Field theories, GUTs, High Energy physics, Quark theories, General 
Relativity, etc.) 
1-143 (footnote) * * " consider all the forces of nature as 
veritable, though super sensuous, states of matter" (Ref: General 
Relativity, E=MC2, Quantum Chromodynamics, etc.) 
1-146 "Electricity, Light, Heat, etc. (i.e. energy) i.e. 
supersensuous states of matter light is - a supersensuous state of 
matter in motion, a Nature Force" (Ref: General Relativity, E=MC2, 
Special Relativity, Photoelectricity, Quantum Thermodynamics, etc.)` 
1-147 " all the so called Forces of Nature, Electricity, Magnetism, 
Light, Heat are in esse i.e. in their ultimate constitution, the 
differentiated aspect of that universal motion discussed (earlier) 
(see Proem)" (Ref: General Relativity, E=MC2, Special Relativity, 
Photoelectricity, Quantum Thermodynamics, etc.)

More to come in the forthcoming book: On The Threshold of a New 
Science and Technology (intro)Leon H Maurer

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