Dear Balbahadur, The reason I am posting this is to somewhat level what seems an impermeable obstruction that exist between people's understanding of what pure science is. Although I am deeply sympathetic towards your ignorance, I will remind you that you are not even wrong. I cannot even explain how ridiculous your comments sounds. I will not argue that people who were in eastern civilization thought about space and time and had some theory about the universe. That is not at all surprising because if one looks at things historically, it always has been a question that has captivated human imagination.In the ancient western civilization, Dante and Ptolemey had their theory about the universe. Also the egyptian, Babylonian and Persian had their theory of the worlds. All these ideas are wrong when viewed from current knowledge. Your arguments are flawed for several reason. First of all Shri Swasthani book doesnt have anything remotely useful to say about spacetime or the universe. That to me is an evidence that you dont even know your own religion and you are trying to unify religion with science. Its just a book a fiction as much as "20,000 league under the sea" is(with religious connotation ofcourse). If by ignorance you were referring to Vedic sciences, I admit that people who wrote veda had some imagination but ultimately their theories of the universe is wrong. In order to describe the large scale structure of the universe one needs to study topology, differential geometry, category theory etc, not vedic mathematics. In fact its not NASA scientists, for the most part, who think about the fundamental question on space and time. That is again a lack of understanding.NASA is mainly concerned with our tiny speck or the neigborhood(called the solar system) that we inhabit in in this vast universe.The research about space time and the universe is isolated from most of people's life as is often described with esoteric equations done by mostly high energy physicist and cosmologist. There is a distincition between cosmology and astronomy and even astrophysics although they are related in some ways.Sure we benefit from the picture from the Hubble deep field or th supernova expansion that NASA provides but their is a difference in scientific inquiry that one needs to understand. You are right about people being persecuted by Catholic church for having a theory about the universe that conflicted with the then interpreted religious scriptures. On the other hand, some of the interesting people who have contributed a great deal in science most notably Kepler and Newton were deeply religious. This is often used by religious zealots to defend religion against knowledge or science if you prefer. I contend that Newton and Kepler unified "heaven's" with earth becuase of their intellectual curiosity and less to do with their religious affiliation. Lastly, I am not going to argue anyone's ignorance anymore. I would make remarks if somebody steates concrete ideas based on facts and reality as opposed to their own prejudice and ignorance. Best regards, PaulMaurice