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Jainism : Through Science particles having different masses with the velocity of 3,00,000 kms/ sec. in all directions. This should be accepted..
This is a strange fact which the common man finds difficult to understand. One finds it difficult to believe that microscopic particles behave like waves. This difficulty arises out of the fact that our minds are preoccupied with the knowledge of pure particles and pure waves. We are familiar with the waves on the surface of water and we know the dynamics of a bullet coming out of a gun.
The experimental proof of the aforesaid equation of De Broglie was arrived at in the year 1925 A.D. While C.J.Dewison-Germer performed experiment in the Bell Telephone Company, a liquid air bottle suddenly burst open and the liquid air splashed upon a red hot piece of nickel and it soiled the surface of the nickel piece. Later on when they performed an experiment on that nickel piece. they found that great changes had taken place in the nickel piece, On account of the accident it was converted into a single crystal and wonderful results came out of these changes. It was observed that electrons were found to be acting in the form of waves and the wavelength was equal to the wavelength in accordance with DeBroglie's formula a = h/mv
The question therefore arose : "Is an electron a wave or a particle ?" In a number of electronic phenomena the electron acts in the form of a particle. In a number of experiments we see its emission from the filament of the valve. We can change its path with the help of electronic field and magnetic field. Also its path of motion in the cloud chamber can be seen clearly. In the phenomenon of photoelectric effect, the electron itself acts as a particle and it also compels light to act as a particle.
Thus it is definitely clear that electrons are particles.
Modern physicists perform three experiments for examining the behaviour of electrons :
1. The experiment with bullets of gun. 2. The experiment with waves of water. 3. The experiment with electrons.
