Jaina Gazette 1928

Author(s): Ajitprasad, C S Mallinath
Publisher: Jaina Gazettee Office

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NOTES AND NEWS
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"It was once part of the earth," he said “and was split from it. It was pulled away from it. It has been asked; Would there not be a scar on the earth where it broke away?
“Some people have suggested it broke away in the region of the Pacific Ocean, which is the lowest part of the earth, and in that way the area now filled with water was scooped out.
“ The other view is that there would not be a depression left, but a protuberance and that the scar is more likely to be the Himalayas. We don't know, and I have no opinion on the subject,
Earth's Pull on Moon. “What we can say is that the action which broke it away will tend to push it farther and farther away from the earth for a time, but the solar tides, which are produced by the sun, will gradually pull it back again and make it approach the earth.
"There are many such instances of this reverse action and it is conceivable that the earth's moon may, millions and millions of years hence, perhaps return to its parent body. It may be said that that is fanciful but it is occuring in the planet Mars.
"Mars has got a moon very near it, so near that the month on Mars is shorter than the day. Mars's day is like ours, of 24 hours, but the moon goes round it in seven hours. That is, the month is only seven hours long.
"The moon is being pulled in by the tides and hurried along in its rotation. Some day, it may be a few thousand years hence, it must come so close that it will graze the planet and come crashing down on the surface.
"That will be a fine sight for those who are alive on this not a very weg'll be the end of any inhabitants on Mars. It is the Isle of Man_but ithaps the size of the Isle of Wight or you think of it in tons.
:cht to reckon with when "It is not going to happen here while we are alive, so you need not worry about that. It may be going to happen on Mars. I on't know whether they are uneasy. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat