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THE SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATIONS OF JAINISM
Gluon
Fig. 10.3 A baryon with its quarks (in circles, red-R, green-G, blue ---B) and the
strong nuclear force with its gauge boson 'gluon' (zig-zag lines).
10.3). Baryons feel the strong force, whereas leptons do not feel this force since they do not have a colour. The energetic quarks radiate gluon; however, as they emerge, the gluons must neutralise their colour which they do by converting the energies through observable particles, mainly ,mesons. The weak nuclear force underlies radioactivity: the particles Z and (W+, W-) are the gauge bosons of the weak nuclear force for the electrically charged and neutral
Proton
Electron
Neutron
Photon
Neutron
Photon
Proton
Electron
Fig. 10.4 Weak force: (a) a neutron and a photon exchanging W+ and (b) a proton
and an electron exchanging W versions, respectively (see Fig. 10.4). The gravitational force (see Fig. 10.5), which is the weakest of the four, holds matter together in the bulk, but the evidence for a particie to transmit gravity--the graviton-is very limited.
We could add karmic forces to the list. Karmic fields are also nonmaterial regions of influence extending in space and continuing in time, but allow interaction between the non-living and the living, i.e. soul and karmons. For karmic forces, it seems that the bosons for interaction between the soul and karmons are 'Passions' (a form of
