"The Exact Time"

"MEASURING TIME"

We all like DEFINITENESS. If someone asks me to name the highest mountain I know that there is a definite answer even if I may not know it. So it  is for the number of days in a year, number of hours in a day, the circumference of the earth and so on. You can find it all in a standard general knowledge book.

But in the world of  science there are at times no final answers.

I asked myself a question : "what is the tiniest thing in nature ?".

Once, (in the ancient times of the recorded history), a grain of sand was considered the smallest of all.

Then the atom was discovered.  It was thought smallest and indivisible. But, as I had  observed above there are no final answers in  nano science. The atom was soon split to reveal protons, neutrons and electrons inside. These seemed like fundamental particles, the final answers. But that was  before scientists discovered that protons and neutrons are made of three quarks each. I think there the matter rests at present.

There is a lot of truth hidden in the ancient scriptures. As swani Vivekanand had put it these books contain great truths camouflaged in lot of chaff. We need intelligent translations of such books. Western scholars in the nineteenth and early twentieth century translated many books of Sanskrit. There is need for much more.

Do you know the smallest measure of time ? The details given in vedas are mindblowing. Here is an example:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_units_of_time