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Limitations Of The Theory Of Special Relativity....
maintaining a greater velocity than light-velocity must be formed through (from) such a micro and special kind of fundamental particles which should be smaller than photon particles and they should be frictionless or might produce a negligible friction. According to Jainism the atoms of every physical substance, are very large in size, so they can never maintain velocity greater than 'c'. But we can't rule out the existence of other types of atoms.
The description of types of Varganās i.e. groups of material particles, in Jain scriptures, also tells us this fact. VARGAŅĀ is a technical word for these various divisions of matter. Though the types of these varganās are infinite in the universe, there are only eight classified types of these vargaņās, which are useful for living beings. Their names are as follows :
1. Audārika varganā 2. Vaikriya vargaņā 3. Ahāraka vargaņā 4. Taijas vargaņā 5.Bhāşā vargaņā 6. Švāsõcchvāsa vargaņā 7. Mano varganā 8. Kārmana vargaņā
All the fundamental particles like electron, proton, neutron, positron, neutrino, quark etc. that have been discovered by our scientists, belong to the first Audārika varganā. SAMAYA -- The Smallest and Basic Unit of Time
SAMAYA is a technical word of Jain philosophical tradition and is used in scriptures to denote the smallest unit of time. There isn't a smaller unit than SAMAYA. Avalikā is also a unit of time and a technical word of Jain traditional scriptures. According to Jainology 1 Muhūtta (i.e. 48 minute) contains 1,67,77, 216 Avalikās, it means in 1 second, the number of Avalikās is approximately 5825.4221... Even though there isn't a definite reference in Jain traditional scriptures to the number of SAMAYAs, of 1 Avalikā, we could find that 1 Avalikā contains uncountable SAMAYAş. Here 'uncountable number' means, it cannot be denoted in mathematical terms or equation.
Now-a-days, scientists have taken the second as the smallest unit of time and they can measure a pico (one trillionth) second, which is equal to 102 second. But this Jain technical word SAMAYA is the smallest unit and though it is difficult to denote it, in terms of seconds, according to the calculation of Śri Nandalal Jain, we can possibly say that 1 SAMAYA is
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| SR No. | 001603 |
| Book Title | Scientific Secrets of Jainism |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Nandighoshvijay |
| Publisher | Research Institute of Scientific Secrets from Indian Oriental Scriptures Ahmedabad |
| Publication Year | 2001 |
| Total Pages | 378 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English, Science, Religion, & Articles |
| File Size | 21 MB |