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COSMOLOGY : OLD AND NEW
“Gravitation-30 is linked up with light and other Electromagnetic-phenomena. "231
This statement amounts to saying that the cause of 'rest of the electrons inside an atom, or that of atoms inside a molecule is the same as that which keeps the members of the solar system together. More recently N. R. Sen has shown that Einstein's modified field equations have the consequence that an electron of finite radius must have 3/4 of its total energy of electro-magnetic origin and 1.4 of gravitational origin (Zet. F. Physik, 40). This leaves no doubt that the reality, to which Jaina philosophers have given the name adharma is responsible for the stability of the atoms and the molecules as also of the galaxies and the solar system. This adharma dravya is being called under the name of 'field of gravitation and the electro-magnetic field' which for want of clear conception is vaguely associated with the surrounding space. So that we read :
"All matter or energy modifies the properties of space-time in its neighbourhood, producing what is called a field of gravitation..... It is not a direct instantaneous action at a distance produced by an attracting body. The cause of the deformation of space-time in the neighbourhood of matter or energy, 232 that is, the cause of gravitation, is still unknown."
Since 'science' means 'measurement and invisibles are not always susceptible to measurement, the scientists cannot posit any invisible entity unless the postulate is extremely essential for explaining phenomena in Nature. Many such invisible quantities do exist with the scientists, whose nature they are cver trying to explore. For instance, they have lately postulated the existence of an unknown particle 'neutrino' to save the law of conservation of matter and energy breaking down. So we read in the "Reports on the Progress of Physics," Vol. III (1937, London), p. 95: “Attempts to detect any ionization by the
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230. Gravitation is said to be the cause of stability of the macroscopic world, the galaxies or the solar system while electro-magnetic forces account for the binding of atoms within a molecule. According to the Jains both these functions are discharged by the same dravia, adharma This view is confirmed here.
231. Properties of Maurer by Champion and Davy, p. 45. 232. Ibid. 233. The law is : Matter or energy can change form but they are indestructible.
