Science Corner: The Photo-Electric Effect
According to the theory of the photo-electric effect, when light strikes an atom, its electrons change state by moving from one level to another. Through interaction with photons, which are fundamental units of light, the electrons gain energy and overcome the powerful force of attraction of the nucleus. If the energy of the light is intense enough, then the bond that holds the electrons will be broken and the latter will fly apart. The greater the energy of the light, the more likely the force that binds the particle will move apart.
Meditation techniques do a similar work on the ego. The mind or the ego is like a particle resulting from the assemblage of innumerable qualities that have been produced and collected during its long journey through eight million four hundred thousand species of life and innumerable human lives. This has made the mind become a point completely cut off from the whole, of which it forms part and with which it is even fundamentally one.
