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is very very high and experiments show that a white hot body cannot retain magnetism. In spite of this it exists in the body of the sun.
The antithesis between a wave and a particle is the burning problem of the day. Certain phenomena in physics are explained by saying that light energy consists of waves in aether and in certain others we have to postulate that light consists of a shower of bullets shot from the luminous body. How can these two contradictory aspects be reconciled? As Sir William Bragg has said "On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays we adopt the one hypothesis; on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays the other." This is a good piece of humour rather than an explanation. The contradiction becomes all the more conspicuous when we say that experiments have been discovered in which both ideas are found necessary at the same time, for instance in the case of counting the interference fringes by means of an electron-counter.
It is difficult to reconcile such cases of pudgala dravya what to say of the formless realities whose laws of interaction cannot be studied by experiments.
The young English physicist Dirac introduced at one time the apparently funny conception of the electron of 'negative mass'--the electron which "does not in any way betray its existence by any measurements whatsoever,--which has played its role on the stage of the universe and retired for good.”
These examples suffice to show that however hard it may be for the imagination to deal with the interpenetrability of dharma and adharma dravyas, it is nevertheless the legitimate explanation of things.
Now coming to the next point, viz., the existence of these substances (media) within the confines of the loka and not beyond, we find that this is a much more reasonable and satisfactory assumption than Einstein's finite universe 'with no space beyond a certain space'. According to Einstein's Cylinder theory neither the universe had a beginning nor will it ever come to an end. In other words, it is a stable unit. If we regard our universe as infinite it cannot be stable at the same time, for in that case we can think the infinite space to be filled with a number of universe and their attractions on our universe would scatter it into infinite space. In order, therefore, to maintain the stability of our universe running from an infinite past into an infinite future the universe was conceived as of infinite dimensions, but since mathematical conditions
