Jain Philosophy and Modern Science

Author(s): Nagrajmuni
Publisher: Anuvrat Samiti

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JAIN PHILOSOPHY & MODERN SCIENCE that being tired of the controversial conclusions of philosophy the flow of science started in an independent channel. Scientists have always believed in massive experiments and researches to explain a particular truth and to preserve its uniqueness According to scientific terminology, truth is only that, whuch is established inside laboratories and observatories But to achieve the truth has never been so easy as the scientists have thought it to be If we read the history of science we find on every page the changing nature of scientific conclusions and discoveries. Ancient scientists like Newton evolved the theories about ether etc, but later experiments led to many different conclusions, so much so that today Professor Albert Einstein has completely overshadowed their existence In the field of atoms right from the days of Democritus to the days of the existence of Atom bombs and Hydrogen bombs there lies a long link of researches and experiments The history of atom is not a history of gradual developments It is rather a history of long researches But conceding for the time being that it was a history of gradual developments the question naturally arises that if the truth established yesterday can be replaced by another truth established today, what certainty is there that the truth established today will not be replaced by another truth which may be discovered tomorrow The theories of Ptolemy about the sun, the moon, the earth and the planets were no actcepted in the days of Copernikus and