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JAIN PILILOSOPHY & MODERN SCIENCE On the basis of this, in every substance there is swelling In the most solid of substances there 18 more empty space than matter. If all the atoms in a big elephant were compressed in such a way, that there was no empty space in between the atoms, the elephant would be so minute that it may easily pass through the thread hole of a needle. According to the difference of empty space of the construction of substances, they have three stages solid, liquid and gaseous. This large amount of empty space can be attirbuted to the repulsive forces between the different electrical charges. We can, as well say, that every substance may assume any one of all the three stages, viz , solid, liquid, or gaseous. But it is certain, that in whichever of the three stages a substance may be, the atoms in it are always in motion. In gaseous stage, this movement assumes the form of wild commotion and the molecules prance about jostling one another It has been estimated that an atom in a gas will be pushed about by the other atoms, a thousand million times in a second, when the distance between them is only three millionth part of an inch
Matter and Energy Some time ago it was believed that energy was an independent separate entity like matter But i Einstein has proved, beyond doubt, that energy and matter are not different from one another. In fact, matter can be transformed into energy and vice
