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improve his comforts in life. Thanks to Volta, Galvani, Faraday and others of the nineteenth century who laid the foundations of the age of electricity. The magnetic, chemical and heating effects of electricity have brought the man in the age of new civilisation of radio, television, loudspeaker, home appliances, telephones, tele-communications and many other facilities. One feels that there is more unification of humanity now than the religions proclaim. There is no mention of this manproduced electricity and its effects in canons.
Table 6 Jaina Postulates about Electricity.
Jaina Postulates
1. Electricity is a fire-bodied Agreeable.
mattergy.
2. It is atomic in nature.
3. Lightnings etc. are forms
of electricity.
4. Electricity is produced due It is produced by contact of
to contact of opposite natured substances. 5. Substances combine due to their electrical nature.
oppositely charged materials through wire. Agreeable.
6. Electricity production is a natural phenomenon.
8.
Current Science
9.
It is flow of high speed electrons which are sub-atomic particles.
These are effects of electricity.
7. Interconversion of energies Agreeable but in both direction.
is possible.
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Besided natural, it can also be produced by man from coal, water and atomic fission/fusion etc.
It could be measured in different units.
It has many uses.
The physicists would not agree to the living nature of energies purely on account of their hotness as there are no
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