Physics Minor
It is said that, if you understand the laws of physics, you are halfway to understanding the world. It’s in that spirit — of physics as the basic core of today’s most important scientific disciplines — that Maharishi University of Management offers an exciting and comprehensive minor program in physics.
But the study of physics, as rigorous and compelling as it is as a field, also develops life-long problem-solving, computational and computer-related skills that enable a graduate to excel in the most demanding and cutting-edge areas of study and professional work.
At Maharishi University of Management, the physics minor is on the road to these discoveries. Whether the graduate steps into the fields of astronomy, chemistry or computer science, engineering, science writing, energy management or environmental policy (to name but a few fields that physics prepares you for) physics study at Maharishi University of Management can be the ticket to employment in an endless variety of fascinating professional adventures.
This path is all the more powerful due to the program’s emphasis on both the direct experience and theoretical understanding of human consciousness and its higher states — integral parts of the University’s physics curriculum. Down through the centuries, the most brilliant and creative physicists have emphasized human consciousness as the foundation for their discoveries. And an exciting momentum has built up over the past 30 years, as theoretical physicists have reached milestones toward a complete unified field theory of all the known force and matter fields of nature. Inspired by the guidance of His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the physicists at Maharishi University of Management have proposed that this complete unified field at the basis of the whole universe is the same as the Unified Field of Consciousness, the experience of which has been recorded in the ancient Vedic Literature and revived through the advanced technologies of consciousness, the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs.
Now, with the increasingly widespread recognition that consciousness is much more than a localized offshoot of brain functioning, the spotlight is even brighter on physics as a leading discipline in the field of consciousness studies. That same light is also focused on Maharishi University of Management, now taking a leadership role in the field of consciousness studies, especially as we begin to explore the true potential of higher states of consciousness. Which means our physics program is in the exciting and unique position of being able to explore new territory — the rich and fertile connections between consciousness, brain research and the study of physics.
There are too many universities where the study of physics is regarded as attainable by only an elite few. But at Maharishi University of Management, Consciousness-Based education nourishes and supports every student’s ability to understand the most advanced new theories, out of reach at many other universities. With a faculty committed to individual attention and learning styles, any conscientious student who wants to learn physics will succeed. Beginning with an understanding of the mathematical precision, so essential to embracing physical concepts, and taken in a step-by-step manner, with generous classroom support, no student need be left behind.
As they approach the conceptual breakthroughs of advanced physics, students embark on a journey that will take them to an entire new way of thinking, a journey that will take them beyond ordinary, waking-state experience and into the realm of higher states of consciousness, woven into the University’s academic program.
The experience of these higher states, coupled with a unique understanding of the entire process, makes the University’s physics students naturally feel at home with even the most sophisticated concepts and puts themworld of the leading edge of physics.