[krapp]

Does that mean ancient Hindus had some actual, credible insight into quantum mechanics, relativity and parallel universes? No... the myth of a cyclical universe is a metaphor drawn from the observations of cycles of death and rebirth found in nature, particularly in the seasons, and plenty of religions draw from it.

It's easy to take these mythological concepts and restate them in a way that seems to imply hidden scientific knowledge or awareness - Christians have done that with the Bible often enough:I know some who quite literally believe the locusts mentioned in the book of Revelations are Apache helicopters, for instance.

But any resemblance between the flights of fantasy in religion and scientific truth are at best coincidental when the science was arrived at through experimentation which depended on generations of knowledge about the physical world the ancients didn't have. Simply sounding kind of correct in hindsight doesn't count for anything.