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distance of universe may be made, e.g. the sun rays travel at a speed of 1.86 lac miles in a second and thus to reach earth it takes about 8.3 minutes covering about 90 million miles or say 150 million kms. The nearest star to our sun is about 4 light years away, imagine the vastness of space .It is said one may add 24 zeroes after one to have approximation of infinite distance without boundary. How could Jainism predict without any equipments like present giant telescopes at Jodral Bank such immensity of space. Certainly it was great feat of spiritual knowledge, transcendental of time and space. :
Modern Physics does not state about forces as mentioned in Jain -Scripture but says universe was formed from matter i.e. particles, their aggregates underinfluence of strong nuclear and electromagnetic, gravitational forces. Further science says universe ultimately consisted of 4% matter, 20%dark matter and 74% dark energy. It is interesting to note that experiments conducted to assess whether universe was expanding or not has led to the result that it was definitely expanding. It was earlier said that observations through giant telescope of Jodral Bank Observatory, make out that universe through galaxies was expanding. Confirmation of this view was reported in Times of India dated 2, April 2012, biefly as under, “ New study confirms of expanding universe driven by dark energy, as Speed Professor Einstein had told." A team of cosmologists of Union of Pertsmouth and Max-Planick Institute of Extra Terrestrial Physics viewed, Big Bang at 14 billion years ago, establishes constant vacuum energy, empty space creating a repulsive force as driving acceleration of
