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A CRITICISM UPON MODERN VIEWS OF OUR EARTH
Gyan Chand Jain, Delhi
Introduction
We have a number of religious concepts upon our earth. They do differ upon qualities of soul and in other alike matters. But so far as the shape of our earth is concerned, not only Jainism but all religions of the world say in one voice that the earth is FLAT, MOTIONLESS, SUFFICIENTLY THICK and WIDELY SPREAD IN ALL FOUR DIRECTIONS. When a Polish astronomer named Copernicus claimed the earth as spherical and moving and the Sun as hanging still, he was called a fool by the then Christian Priests. Later on Galileo, an Italian physicist, was convicted by the Christian authorities for the same offense. Still there is a society named FLAT EARTH SOCIETY in London which warns the people against modern teachings about the earth.
We all know that modern scientists have put a number of proofs in support of spherical shape of our earth. But on making a deep study of the Gravitational Field of our earth, I found that the properties of this field are quite different from those of a spherical body. In other words, I do not find the gravitational field of our earth with those properties which the scientists hold to possess. I put my findings before so many modern people and institutions, but there is no satisfactory solution of the problems raised therein. In this short essay. I am going to mention in what ways the gravitational field of our earth differs with that of a spherical body. Learned readers are requested for a careful study.
Absence of Centre of our Earth
Modern science teaches us that there is a centre of our spherical earth. This centre is inside the earth nearly 6400 k.m. away from the outer surface. The spherical earth pulls on all outer things towards the said centre.
By the teachings of the modern science, it can easily be understood that the gravitational forces of our earth are unparallel to each other in its eyes. In other words, it says that a body moves towards a point when it is allowed to fall freely under the action of earth's gravity by moving along converging lines of gravitational forces. This teaching is illustrated by the diagrams.
It is not difficult to verify whether or not the falling bodies might fall towards a point. On examining the diagrams carefully, we can easily determine that all falling bodies should contract in their sizes if they move towards a point.
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