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ROTATION OF EARTH
179 the bee. In the same way, if a person inside the carnage throws a ball five feet high and wants to catch it again he can catch it But if the same experiment is carried out by a person atting on the roof the moving train, he cannot catch the ball again; or if he sets his parrot free from the cage, thinking that it will come back to the cage as it always does, as it is flying within the atmosphere of the train, he will lose his parrot The conclusion is that the example of the moving compartment cannot support the motion of earth If the earth were moving, then the birds and aeroplanes moving for hours in the space would certainly be lost
The general rule of the universe is that a person travelling on a speedily moving vehicle always experiences & resistance from air If the earth on which we are sitting, is moving like an aeroplane in infinite space why don't we experience any resistance of that sort? We, thus, find that the following argument advanced by Shripati is not at all baseless, "If the earth, our open aeroplane, were moving with the so said tremendous speed, there would be such a terrific shock on its open roof that along with the tall buildings the peaks of the mountains and other big things, we ourselves also would fall down in the space" Also, if there were a gravitational force to stabilize us, we would experience the action and reaction of the atmosphere and the force of gravitation
In the New Light of Theory of Relativity Saence is a hver in which new ripples con- .
| SR No. | 011010 |
| Book Title | Jain Philosophy and Modern Science |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Nagrajmuni |
| Publisher | Anuvrat Samiti |
| Publication Year | 1959 |
| Total Pages | 234 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 8 MB |