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Pudgala in the Philosophy of Mahāvīra and Modern Science 205
Jains view of Pudgala and its manifestations into various phenomena. 24
Anavah Skandhāsca :-Matter exists in the form of Aņu indivisible elementary particle or of Skandha combination of those particles. We have already pointed out that the modern scientific atom is not the final indivisible Aņu as envisaged by the Jain view. It may be called a Vyavahāraparmā 2u. However, for estimating the wonderful minuteness of the modern science, it may be cited that one grain of sand has been found to contain 1 x 1016 atoms, the place occupied by a pin point can accommodate 55 x 1018 atoms. A point marked by a ball-point pen when weighed in the most sensitive quartz balance in the Leningrad observatory of Russia, was found to weigh 0001158 gram.
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Dynamic nature of Pudgala :
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दव्वाणि अरण, संखेज्जादि हवंति चलिदाहि "" -The elementary Parmāņu in a Pudgala Dravya and the aggregate of numerical or innumerical atoms are all in a state of motion. These motions are of two kinds. Natural or externally propelled. This is exactly the version of modern dynamical theory and Electron conception. According to Sir Rutherford the interior of an atom is a solar system.
Structure:
By various experiments he concluded that an atom contains within its centre a massive charge of positive electricity (protons), with a number of negative electricity particles called electrons going round the former with a great velocity, in a fixed orbit like the planets round the sun. The simplest atom of Hydrogen has one proton and one electron. The diameter of an electron is 5 x 10-12 cm., while the diameter of Hydrogen is 2x 10-8 cm. Its weight already shown to be 164 x 10-24 gram. The weight of its proton is just as above 164 x 10-24, that of electron is 1/2000 part of the weight of Hydrogen.
The electrons in an atom travel round the nucleus (concentrated electric charge in the centre) with a speed of 1300 miles per sec. The attractive force between Proton and Electron is electrical binding energy. If the proton be magnified to the size
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