Introduction:
I have come accorss, both in print and in person, quite a number of Indian scientists and other learned Indians who maintain in effect that the Quantum Mechanics was first discovered by the Indians and/or that its findings were first thought of by them.
In the next few articles I will try to show that this is more a wishful thinking than the truth. The best that can be said about this is that some of the abstract thoughts of Quantum Mechanics happen to have some resemblance to some of the Indian Philosophy but note that this is not the same as Indian Science, as it did not exist at the sophisticated level required to deal with QM. But in any case, none of these have been proved to be true by any empirical proofs carred out in India.
I intend to show, in brief, the aspects of modern Quantum Mechanics that the Indians maintain that they first thought of and if so whether there is any historical proof of them having done so, and more importantly, proved to be so.
I intend to start with the history of QM and then show which aspects are similar to some of the Indian Philosophical notions.
Early History of Quantum Mechanics:
