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DHARMA AND ETHER tember 1933, and published in the "Nature" February 3, 1934, says.
"The magnitude and direction of the observed effect vary in the manner required by the assumption that the earth is moving through a fixed ether" The fact of the matter is that the Scientists find themselves on the horns of a dilemma regarding this mysterious ether The Scientists can neither accept it in the form conceived nor can they give it up altogether. However, ether seem to coincide gradually with the Dharma Dravya defined in Jain philosophy--the element, which is devoid of the material properties like colour, odour, taste and touch, which is formaless all pervading and possessing countless ‘Pradesha' But, on account of the fundamental prejudices, the Scientists are hesitating to call such an element a real existent. At the same time there is no other way out of it but to accept it as an existent The famous Scientist Sir James Jeans writes in the Chapter of 'Relativity and the Ether', in his book 'Mysterious Universe', with an explanation of the Rada Lecture delivered before the University of Cambridge in November 1930, "The ether in its various forms of energy dominates modern physics, though many prefer to avoid the term." "ether" because of its nineteenth-century association, and use the term "space". The term used does not matter much I think, the best way of regarding the ether is as a frame work of reference. Its existence is just as real, and just as
