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Jaina Relativism(Anekāntavāda) and Theory of Relativity
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14. The mass and shape of matter are unchangeable and absolute. 15. Light and heat are corpuscular.
Force and matter have gone inseparable and interchangeable. They exist only in middle zone layers and are variable with motion. Radiations have dual nature. Matter particles are also wavicular, Matter is concentrated energy.
16. Matter and energy/forces are separate. 17. Properties of matter and particles can be studied absolutely.
They can be studied approximately only in terms of interactions with surroundings, observer or its consciousness. Any system is never isolated. It is integral part of a whole.
D. Space 18. Space is absolute, valid, static 3-d and unchangeable, It follows euclidean Geometry.
Space is elastic and changeable. It is a space-time 4-d continuum inseparably related with time. It is non empty and relative. It follows non-Euclidean geometry and curved. They are inter-related part of a whole.
All events occur in space-time continuum. They do not happen.
19. Space and time are independent of each other and absolute. Their absoluteness gives fixed frame of reference. 20. All events happen in space and time. E. Time 21. Time is absolute, independ ent, invariable objective reality like space. 22. Time may be divided into past, present and future. F. Mind or Soul 23. Mind may be equated to con-
Time is also elastic and variable serving as a frame of reference.
Divisions of time are an illusion.
Mind represents subjectivity
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