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261 / जैनों का संक्षिप्त इतिहास, दर्शन, व्यवहार एवं वैज्ञानिक आधार
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no Creator, nature is autonomous and automatic, concept sounding more of modern physics than of religion.
Modern Physics states however also of big bang - from crunch to creation, about 14 billion i.e.14000 million years ago, almost infinity, not in terms of geometric progression, but in astronomical terms of time, as it simultaneously states that before that 'singularity', there was no time and even if it was there, it was destroyed including every thing; say matter, space, forces etc.. It did not practically exist as such.
It does not however appeal to common -sense that before big bang there was no time nor space or other fundamental entities like particles, gravitation or forces etc. Even if started from a crunch it must have contained all those entities in seed form ;from many to one, seems more reasonable and not vice versa,because scientific law of matter is that, it is neither created nor destroyed, of course matter and energy are interinvertible but sum total is always equivalent. Hence in Bhagwad Gita in II Chapter verse 12 it is said, "There was never a time when I was not there or when you were not there, nor is it a fact that we here after, shall all cease to be ."As shown earlier Stephen Hawking himself doubted looking to endless expanding nature of universe if it had a beginning or not. There are other important scientific theories of also regarding beginning of nature. "Universe is not defined by one beginning or end as thought by Hawking," said a cosmologist Roger -Penrose. In fact a universe goes through a succession of beginnings and endings. "It is a cycle following succession of big-bangs
