Jain Philosophy and Modern Science

Author(s): Nagrajmuni
Publisher: Anuvrat Samiti

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SYADWAD & THEORY OF RELATIVITY he human mind has made into the "Unknown".1 Yet n understanding the complexity of this theory many : critic are very much opposed to this theory. The amous experienced engineer, Sydney A. Reeve said, Einstein's theory is arrant non-sense."2 Plulosopher Gaganhammer wrote. "Einstein has made a very ally basic error in logic " Thus like Syadwad, the Theory of Relativity had been adversely criticized but now in the scientific world it has been accepted. cniversally as a great theory of the Twentieth Century
Conclusion
Some thinkers are of the opinion that relativity and Syadwad cannot be compared because Syadwad
s a spiritual theory and the Theory of Relativity is material The truth is that both the theores are merely methodological and hence none of them is limited either to spirt or to matter. It should be noted that it is wrong to suppose that Syadwad is limited to spiritualism By its very nature, it is as. much related to spiritual as to material objects. When it passes judgement on both it is quite clear what it is as much spiritual as material. But as the scientists consider only physical science as the field of their knowledge, the field of the Theory of Relativity has been limited to matter. Relativity is also a
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Exploring the universc p 257 Cosmology Old and New, p 197. [ord, p 197