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
a large number of other attributes. Time always moves in forward direction. This arrow of time is determined by increase in entropy (disorder). The micro world (molecules and smaller entities i.e. atoms, elementary particles, as small as they can get) is governed by quantum mechanics. Some laws of classical physics are not valid in this regime. In the micro world, new properties (attributes) come in to play. One such attribute is duality i.e. the same particle, such as photon, can behave as matter or wave at different times. It is possible that as one goes to finer and finer particles, new attributes (called quantum states) will arise. In the micro world, particles exist in certain discreet states. There is no continuous transition from one state to another but any change is a quantum jump. Some of these attributes may be contradictory. Contradictory properties are in fact complementary and enables us to understand the nature of the whole. Processes in the micro world follow certain principles: These are Principle of Uncertainty, Exclusion Principle, entanglement etc. Uncertainty principle requires that some of the attributes of a particle (like position and momentum or energy and time) can not be simultaneously measured with precision. This is not a limitation of the observer or measurement but a fundamental law which prohibits precise measurements of both the parameters in a coupled
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Exclusion principle ensures that two identical particles (identical in all the attributes) can not coexist at the same time at the same place.
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Entanglement ensures that all the particles produced in the same process influence each other, no matter where they are. The whole universe can be built by 61 "elementary” particles which are basic building blocks of matter. These include four carrier particles (photon, graviton, W+boson and Zo). Quarks and gluons are the smallest particles known so far. Certain "Forces" operate on any material particle in the universe. There are seven forces in all. Electricity, magnetism and gravitation follow the inverse square law. Nuclear forces are of two types, weak and strong. Electricity, magnetism
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