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जैन कथा साहित्य की विकास यात्रा
ईथर के सम्बन्ध में भौतिक विज्ञानवेत्ता डा० ए० एस० एडिंग्टन ने लिखा है
__ "आज यह स्वीकार कर लिया गया है कि ईथर भौतिक द्रव्य नहीं है, भौतिक की अपेक्षा उसकी प्रकृति भिन्न है, भूत में प्राप्त पिण्डत्व और घनत्व गुणों का ईथर में अभाव होगा, परन्तु उसके अपने नये और निश्चयात्मक गुण होंगे............. ईथर का अभौतिक सागर'।"
अलबर्ट आइन्सटीन के अपेक्षावाद के सिद्धान्तानुसार 'ईथर अभीतिक, अपरिमाण्विक, अविभाज्य, अखण्ड, आकाश के समान व्यापक, अरूप, गति का अनिवार्य माध्यम और अपने-आप में स्थिर है'।
same time within the earth, and in the seemingly impossible small space which exists between the atoms of all matter, That is to say, Ether is everywhere ; and that electromagnetic wave been can be propagated everywhere. -Hollywood, R. and T. : Instruction Lesson No. 2. 'What
is Ether ?' %. This does not mean that the Ether is abolished. We need
an Ether............in the last century it was widely believed that Ether was a kind of matter having properties such as mass, rigidity, motion like ordinary matter. It would be difficult to say when this view died out........Now-a-days it is agreed that Ether is not a kird of matter, being non-material its properties are signeries [quite unique] characters such as mass and rigidity which we meet within matter will naturally be absent in Ether but the Ether will have new and definite characters of its own................non-material ocean of Ether.
-The Nature of the Physical World, p. 31. 8. Thus it is proved that Science and Jain Physics agree abso
lutely so far as they call Dharma (Ether] non-material, nonatomic, non-discrete, continuous, co-extensive with space, indivisible and as a necessary medium for motion and one which does not itself move.
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