Education
Specializing in theoretical physics, he moved to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to do a Doctor of Philosophy under Steven Weinberg and Eugene Stanley in the area of critical phenomena.
Specializing in theoretical physics, he moved to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to do a Doctor of Philosophy under Steven Weinberg and Eugene Stanley in the area of critical phenomena.
He was a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. His current work relates to applying a combination of philosophical arguments and knowledge of Vedic sciences to solve the problems with in modern science, and thereby refining the foundations of physics, biology, and information theory. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in 1972, and thereafter he authored/co-authored many papers on the same, which now have resurfaced as applications to criticality in biosystems.
He founded the Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine and is on the editorial boards of many leading journals in the field
He has published more than 60 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals, and many expository articles for a general audience. Taking inputs from Vedic sciences, Hankey tries to resolve problems in theoretical physics like the nature of the Hawking-Penrose singularity, "holistic" processes in physics and biology, the interpretation of quantum theory, the origins of thermodynamics, the implications of dispersion relations and analyticity.
He has developed a new complexity based theory of cognition, and a Vedic approach to understanding quantum theory with new extensions of that theory. Due to his diverse research interests, he has been a guest speaker at many international and national conferences, and has been featured in the news several times for promoting traditional knowledge to serve mankind and restoring a substantial ethical basis for modern life, introducing proper preventative health programss in developed societies, et cetera