Tulsi Prajna 1990 12

SR No.: 524564
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Mangal Prakash Mehta
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1990
Total Pages: 76
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 5 MB

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TULASI-PRAJNA, Dec., 1990 which have led us through many important individual problems.
"Philosophers have thus far considered an idealistic interpretation of space and time as the only possible epistemological position, because they overlooked the twofold nature of the mathematical and the physical problems of space. Mathematical space is a conceptual structure, and as such ideal. Physics has the task of coordinating one of these mathematical structures to reality. In fulfilling this task, physics makes statements about reality, and it has been our aim to free the objective core of these assertions from the subjective additions introduced through the arbitrariness in the description" 31
Thus the gist of Reichenbach's view is that he accepts the theory of relativity, and at same time he considers the assertion of objectivity of space and time the inevitable consequence of the theory of relativity. Prof. Margenau's Interpretation
Eminent scientist-philosopher prof. Margenau is also amongst them who, in the philosophical interpretation of theory of relativity, have asserted the reality of space.
As we have already seen, Margenau has introduced a new concept of “construct” to denote reality. With regards to space and time, he holds that time and space have a status commensurate with all the other constructs of physics.82 Also he has observed : "Let us resist the temptation to think of this new space-time as less "real". It is a construct, to be sure, but so was three-dimensional space, and so are many components of reality.... "33 About the fourth dimension of time, he says : ""The "discovery" of the fourth coordinate has no mysterious aspects and brings forth no ghosts. It is a discovery in the constructional sense just discussed". 34
He has also considered that the absolute space is a possible construct. He writes: "The advocate of absolute space bases his attitude on the simple fact that he can intuit three-dimensional space. even when it is vacant of objects. This kind of space is a possible construct, and it is absolute within the frame-work of the initial
question”. 35
Further, Prof. Margenau has explained that this kind of absolute space is not adopted by the scientists only because it is not useful to them, but that it does not mean that the absolute space has ceased to exist. He clearly mentions "A strong preference has been expressed for the interpretation of space as a relational entity. It should now he emphasized that this admission reflects no prejudice upon the
liv of space."936 Margenau considers spatial constructs such as point, line and surface as verifacts and hence allots them the