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COSMOLOGY : OLD AND NEW years and the last reversal took place some 7,00,000 years back. After forty or fifty thousand years, it is likely to occur again. This is a very brilliant confirmation of Jaina Siddhanta according to which Mahapralaya is going to take place exactly after 39500 years. At the time of zero magnetic field, all cosmic rays will exert their maximum destructive force and there will be an utter destruction i.e. Mahapralaya.
At the time of reversal of the poles, there are very great genetic mutations with the result that the creatures born are either too small in size or too large i.e. entirely new forms of life are produced.
On june 30. 1908 there was an unusual explosion in Siberia in the Soviet Union. The explosion may be compared to a 30 megaton hydrogen bomb explosion i.e. equal to 1500 Hiroshima atom bombs exploding together. American scientists are of the opinion that it was an explosion caused by an antimatter intrudur of about 1 Kg eight that entered accidentally into our earth. If some day a lump of antimatter weighing about 10 tons, enters into our universe, it will create such a gigantic explosion that the whole world will be reduced to dust.
There is another view with regard to the dcom of our Earth. The Earth is gradually increasing in mass at the rate of 20,000 tons per year on an average due to entry of meteorites and cosmic dust. Since the Earth is rotating like gyroscope, constant increase in its mass means slowing down of the angular velocity. From this we can easily conclude that some day its rotation about its axis will cease. The result will be that on one side there will be eternal day and on the other side an eternal night. The day side will have a burning temperature where water will be converted into vapours. On the other side, there would be extreme cold. Under either conditions living organisms cannot survive.
As the sun is also loosing its mass incessantly, it will not be able to exert its maximum pull on the Earth. Under these circumstances it is very likely that the Earth may collide with some other celestial body and be broken into pieces.
The concept of Mahapralaya in Jaina Siddhanta is a different story. In what is called as Bharata Ksetra by the ancients, the cycle of Time is first divided into two parts, called the uisarpriņi (उत्सर्पिणी) and avasarpini (अवसर्पिणी). Then each of them is further divided into six epochs. During the utsarpiņi kala, there is a gradual progress and during the avasarpiņi kāla there is a gradual decline. Utsarpiņi comes again and so on alternately. Hunger is excited after an interval of 3 days and is immediately
