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(6) The strong force that binds the nucleus is one hundred times stronger than the electromagnetic force which holds atoms together and also internally binds electrons to their orbits around the atomic nucleii. The strong force keeps protons together in the nucleus which have only positive charge making them fall apart. The interactions of this strong force happen within 10-23 second. This force is quite different from the nuclear force described in (4) above herein keeping protons and neutrons tightly bound together within the nucleus.
Are all these forces the various levels of the supreme force of consciousness? Not the scientist but only the mystics can answer.
In Jainism, it is still paramanu, perhaps at one of the levels of 15 earlier referred to. All events in Jainism are atomic events. Karmic vargana paramanus flow to interplay with consciousness, conscious energy which too is likely to have aspects similar to this incontient energy. Einstein's quantum theory as well as Prigogine's dissipative structures theory have established that there is consciousness in matter, matter is not inert but active and alive or that energy and mass are convertible according to the famous equation "E=Mc2" but that is not saying that consciousness is matter. It may well be in matter but it is not matter. It is more than matter, how much more or what more is still the subject of further researches, Even saying all universe is interrelated matter, not 'things but only inter-connections' and therefore one does not exhaust 'Consciousness'. The concept of Jiva and Ajiva being two distinct and separate Realities of Jainism still holds good and both 'Dravya' and 'bhava' karma paramanus can still be explained as 'Ajiva' viz 'pudgala' alone, as different from Jiva i.e. consciousness and other 'Ajiva' substances of 'Dharma', *Adharma', 'Akasha' and 'Kala' which exist as only passive media-forces. Biologists are busy dissecting the human body down to its minutest components of cellular and molecular mechanisms but they still do not know how the body breathes,
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