14. The Mahabharata (India)

The Mahabharata is a many-body problem on an epic scale: dynasties, dharma, and cosmic will interact as multiple fields with complex coupling. The Kurukshetra war is a massive scattering event where individual actions propagate nonlinearly through families and kingdoms, producing emergent patterns (law, regret, new orders). Characters act as particles with varying masses—Bhishma’s unbending honor, … Continue reading 14. The Mahabharata (India)