Book Title: Jainism
Author(s): M R Gelra
Publisher: Createspace

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________________ physical sciences so the above description of mass-less karma in Jain literature was considered irrelevant. (iv) Scientific Experiments In search of the basic constituents of the universe, physicists are carrying out the experiments on large scale at Vienna on large Hadron Collider a 27 km long tubular. Nascent universe track buried a few hundred meters to know what exactly the particles were or the forces present at the time of big bang. Were they mass-less or with mass? Herece weak nueinforce un torce 10 1 011 time from beginning of big bang Nascent Universe (13] These particles do not obey exclusion principle. It was interesting to know that the force carrying particles exchanged between matter particles are said to be virtual particles because unlike "real" particles, a particle detector cannot directly detect them. The behaviour of Gluon particle is very unique and appears sometimes as metaphysical. It is believed that within a fraction of a second, four fundamental forces – gravity, electromagnetic, strong and weak nuclear forces were created. It is reported that at Cern (Genava) physicists performed two separate experiments with the help of a giant atom smasher and reached within a certain range of mass that would be consistent with the Higgs boson. If confirmed, the existence of the Higgs (God) particle would explain the 40-year search in a single stroke the mystery of what gives mass to this invisible constellation of particles. Roughly speaking, the mass of a particle, much alike to the mass of a truck, is the resistance you would feel were you to push it. The question is, where does this resistance come from? The answer according to Higg's idea is that all space is filled with an invisible substance - the Higgs field - that acts kind of like a pervasive molasses,

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