Jain Philosophy and Modern Science

Author(s): Nagrajmuni
Publisher: Anuvrat Samiti

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SYADWAD & THEORY OF RELATIVITY relative to the remote nebulae And these remote nebulae move towards or away from one another with speeds of hundreds of miles a second or more, by going farther into space we not only find no standard of absolute rest, but encounter greater and greater speeds of motion"
The conclusion is that according to Relativity every planet and material object is mobile as well as immobile The believers in Syadwad also say the same about the constant and yet ever changing atom. The universe is eternal but at the same time in a fux. It is not necessary to see whether the conclusions of both these theories are acceptable to each other, but what-is important is to see that methodologies of both Syadwad and Theory of Relativity are very similar Both depend on the logic of relativity As Syadwad talgs of being and non-being at every step, the theory of Relativity also deals with 'is' and 'is not in every premuse For example, when normally we say that a. thing weighs 194 lbs, according to Relativity, this may or may not be correct For a weight of 194 lbs. at the equator, may weigh. 195 lbs at the poles. Apart from the position of the observer, it also depends upon the state of the body, whether it is at rest or in motion Another example 152 "Suppose this room is a lift, the support breaks 'and down we go with ever-increasing velocity, falling freely like a stone Suppose I am inside the lift and I perform
1. Cosmology old and new p 205 2 Ihd p 40