Atma the Self

Author(s): Punyadarshanvijay
Publisher: Sanmarg Prakashan

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.... ĀTMĀ The Sel... PARAMĀNU 'THE KARMIC PARTICLE
(POWER OF THE ATOM)
Protons-Quarks :
The Science : Modern research has identified matter into Molecule.... into Atom.... into Electron.... Nucleus.... into Proton.... into Neutron... into Quarks, each trapped inside larger particle of the preceding unit in large numbers.
The proton has already been broken into smaller particles. Stephen W. Hawking - in his book 'A brief history of time from Big Bang to Black Holes', writes: 'Protons when collided with other protons or electrons at high speed indicated that they were in fact made up of smaller particles. These particles were named 'Quarks' by Physicist Merry Gell Mann (won Nobel Prize in 1969), who said that there are a number of different varieties of quarks and there are thought to be at least six flavours. Each flavour comes in three colours: red, green and blue'.
'The Time (U.S.A)' has published in its issue dated 18th April 1990 :
'The scientists have suceeded very recently to smash the Quark through the Super Conducting Super Collider into tiny fragments. They are particles. They are only visualized, not seen by themselves.' Colours, shapes, etc., have also been published with details. They are particles not the indivisible unit of matter - 'The Paramāņu'. onef-19-ul Ek Jainism has identified matter by five attributes in Colours, Smells,
Tastes, Touches and Shapes. By permutations and combinations they will have 530 divisions with countless grades, intensities and energies in twos and threes upto infinite numbers and types, positive, negative and neutral. A single molecule can (Acitta Samudghāta) explode and cover the entire universe with its particles and withdraw to its original form in a twinkle (8 Samaya).
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Nuclear Physics has attributed tremendous power to Atom. The atomic
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