Jain Philosophy and Modern Science

Author(s): Nagrajmuni
Publisher: Anuvrat Samiti

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JAIN PHILOSOPHY & MODERN SCIENCE the event in 'b' as happening after thousands of years; while a second spectator in 'B' will similarly feel the explosion at its own place as immediate and the event in 'a' to have happened after thousands of years Thus, about these explosions no absolute time can be determined but only a relative time can be stated." To clarify this illustration it is necessary to make an explanation Modern science believes that light travels at a speed of 1,86,000 miles per second. A light year is the distance travelled by light in one year. There are galaxies in the universe which are at a distance of thousands of ught years from each other. An event occurring in one of them can be seen after thousands of years by the residents of another. The substance is, that man, in such matters, accepts the relative truth If a man on 'a' happens to meet a man on 'b', probably their conclusions will be contradictory to each other while both will be correct from their own viewpoints.
"The doctrine of seven prediction" of the Syadwad dialectics accepts the existence of a thing in concomitance of its own substance, place, time and mode; and its non-existence in concomitance of the substance etc of the non-self For example, we predicate that a pot is made of earth, made in Rajasthan, made in summer and made of a particular white colour and of a particular name. The same pot at the same time can be described by another person as a pot not made of gold, not made in Vidarbha, not made in