Cosmology Old and New

Author(s): G R Jain
Publisher: Bharatiya Gyanpith

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COSMOLOGY: OLD AND NEW
light absorbed. Heat energy, therefore, has mass, just as light enegry has.
"Every form of energy storage implies a storage of mass, no matter whether the energy be magnetic, chemical or in any other form. Energy and mass are just different names for the same thing. One gram of mass is equivalent to 9 X 1020 ergs; to obtain this energy from coal we should have to burn nearly 3,000 tons. Unfortunately, matter is not sufficiently obliging to set its mass and so, its energy free.
“Recently, however, cases have been found to occur where this transformation of matter into free energy actually takes place.” Every form of matter is convertible into energy. This fact is fully illustrated by the explosion of a hydrogen bomb. Here four nuclei of hydrogen fuse to give one helium nucleius and only a fraction of their mass is converted to energy. But now it has become possible to convert the entire mass into energy by allowing matter to react with anti-matter."S? The two will entirely cancel each other giving out a spectacular amount of energy.
It is the height of wisdom of Jaina thinkers to have included all forms of energy in class of matter. In fact they have identified matter and energy under the general name pudgala. One form of energy can be changed into another form because they are fundamentally the modifications of the same dravya pudgala. This intra-convertibility of heat into light, light into sound, sound into electricity and so on is the secret of all wonders of modern science. One example of the recording and reproduction of talking films will illustrate this point.
The microphone which hangs over the head of an actor in the studio converts the sound waves into electric current; this current is then passed through a special lamp where the electric
157. Anti-matter is the opposite of matter. An anti-matter atom has a negatively charged nucleius containing anti-protons. Positively charged particles-positrons or arti-electrons-revolve in the orbits, whereas in a normal atom of matter the electrons move round the positive charge in the centre.
Anti-matter is obtained from nuclear accelerators. In the world's largest particle accelerator at Serpukhov, USSR, the Soviet Scientists have obtained anti-helium--the most complex anti-matter ever produced. The same experiments have yielded anti-deuterium also. In the language of Jaina. Sastras anti-matter is also a form of pudgala.