We can talk of things tending toward zero but we are helpless when something becomes zero

Molecular biology.. genetic engineering.. the progress in these fields may be path breaking.. but everything pauses on the point when the life and the chemical content of the biological mass are keeping good company to one another.

Once the threshold is crossed and we are faced with the fact that what is called life. and signs thereof have left the biological mass now called carcass or dead body, we stand dumb folded..

Our basic belief.. of Hinduism and Vedas was that there is a controlling force in rtm ऋतम् and सत्यं

we see the Harihara swaroopam

in rtgm satyam param brahma purusham krishnapingalam oordhwaretham viroopaaksham vishvaroopaya vai Namah.

ऋतं सत्यं परंब्रह्म पुरुषं कृष्णपिङ्गलं ऊर्ध्वरेतम् विरूपाक्षं विश्वरूपाय वै नमः .

( we chant this prayer at least thrice a day.. the lord Hari and Hara are one and they are the embodiment of rthm and satyam.. (translation of the other parts of the slokam are not relevant here)..

The basic principle is that the function of the whole universe is controlled by Him applying His will which is the exalted truth..

rthm is truth,( the structure or rule of truth.). but many things more than mere truth as we who have learned science in modern terms and the logic thereon can interpret or perceive..

The theory of Karma has also its genesis here.. right things beget right and wrong ones the opposite.

So the living being is also expected to obey the Divine truth and follow it.. but we are given a little freedom and we tend to move away from the exalted order a little and we get tarnished by Karma..

Of course, the precept of the primal Truthfulness and objectiveness of the Maker has to be accepted without proof.. either because there is no proof or because our minds have not yet grown enough to grapple with that proof..

And most of the Vedic principles have emanated from this baisc tenet..

True, the lesser humans have added a lot of muck to the basic foundation.. but then that happens even in science.

. Are we anywhere near absolute truth in Science? What about the strange behaviours of matter energy mix as conceived by Max Planck and Einstein.. at the uncertainty principle level.?.

most of the research findings are ultimately estimations..

the value of something very small as a tiny variable which is relatable to it tends to become zero.. even in differentiation in maths.. We can talk of things tending toward zero but we are helpless when something becomes zero..