Vaisheshika: The Atomic Theory of Ancient India

Here is something that might blow your mind: roughly 2,500 years ago, an Indian sage proposed that all matter is made of tiny, indivisible particles. No microscopes, no labs - just pure reasoning. His name was Kanada (literally "atom-eater"), and his philosophy, Vaisheshika, is one of Hinduism's six classical schools. While the Greeks get credit for atomic theory through Democritus, Kanada was working on the same idea independently, possibly even earlier.

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