Jainism Eternal and Universal Path for Enlightenment

Author(s): Narendra Bhandari
Publisher: Research Institute of Scientific Secrets from Indian Oriental Scriptures Ahmedabad

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Jainism : The Eternal and Universal path for Enlightenment
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Greenstein and Zajonc in the quantum challenge exemplify another aspect of micro world of atoms. In the gross world, if we hit a ball on a wall within a room having two windows, the ball can go out only through one or the other window. In the quantum world, when an electron, proton or neutron his a barrier with two or more holes, they can go out of all the holes simultaneously. Notions of causality and of impossibility of being at the several locations simultaneously at the same time are shattered by the quantum theory. This is called the phenomena of superposition of being at two places at once and is related to the phenomena of entanglement. It breaks down our perception of spatial separation.
The quantum mechanics allows us to create the whole universe out of nothing because virtual particle pairs (matter and antimatter) can be created out of nothing (vacuum). The whole universe is virtual, created out of nothing, as Shankara said and the modern science agrees with this concept, at least in pronciple. Yet there are laws that govern the quantum processes and there are principles which can not be violated. It is debatable whether any of these principles which are applicable to subatomic processes are also applicable to the soul, which apart from being non-material, is infinitely fine (ati-sukshma).
Thus we have seen that in the microworld, where quantum physics is applicable, particles show particle-wave duality. Wave mechanics give probability of a particle being present at any location but it can materialize when looked upon by an observer. A spreadout wave, when observed, suddenly becomes localized and become a particle. Thus we can say that looking changes possibility in to actuality. A quantum of light, for example, has no attributes till a measurement is performed. Quantum non-locality extends not only over space but also over time. Thus we can say that in quantum world, there is neither space nor time unless consciousness has chosen to collapse an event. We can invoke consciousness to explain delayed choice experiment, in which the particle changes its behaviour at the nick of time, even after it has already set out on a path, long ago, but no physical proof of consciousness” has been found. We have also seen that two correlated photons are phase-tangled. Non-locality means communication or influence without exchanging signals through space-time and although non-locality of correlated photons can not be used to transfer information, they are in some kind of "communication".
Some similarities between physical and sentient phenomena can be found. It is well known that looking can change the behaviour of sentient beings. It is claimed that