________________
Dr. Anil Kumar Jain
always vibrate with a frequency corresponding to red colour. But the intensity of the wavelength corresponding to that frequency is so small that we cannot see it.
One thing more is that when one coloured quark combines with an anticoloured anti-quark, it forms a meson which is a colourless particle. In this way, coloured quarks can make a colourless particles.
We can assume that a quark is just like a paramānu and a meson is just like a smallest possible skandha. Thus, according to the modern science, paramānu ( quark ) will always be a coloured particle but a skandha (meson etc. ) may or may not be a coloured one. Hence we can conclude that all the material object are made of number of coloured fundamental particles (so called paramānu ). With this respect, colour is an innate property of the mater. But we have to accept the fact that it is not necessary that all the skandhas should be coloured.
Second point of discussion is that how many colours exist in the Universe ? According to the Jainism, the number of colours are only five. But according to the modern science, it is not the case. Each wavelength of visible region of electromagnetic spectrum is associated with some particular colour. If there is a little change in the wavelength, the colour will also change. In this way, there are a number of colours. In daily life also, we see that there are number of colours. Then, how can be justified that there are only five colours ?
First of all, we have to classify the colours in two forms — (1) primary (or elementary) colours, and ( 2 ) derived colours. There are only five primary colours. Derived colours may be of any number. When we say that a body possesses a colour other than five elementary colours, it is to be understood that the body will certainly have a mixture of five elementary colours only in different proportions.
We can further justify the existence of five primary colours by going into detail of colours of quark the smallest possible building block of matter. As we have said earlier that a quark possesses any one of the three colours. If we assume quark as a paramāņu, then on the basis of science, a paramānu may have any one of the three colours (i.e. blue, yellow and red ). But a skandha may have number of colours depending upon colours of all the constituent paramānus forming that skandha.
But problem is not yet solved. According to the Jainism, there are two more colours, i.e., white and black. According to the science, a body possesses
Jain Education International
For Private & Personal Use Only
www.jainelibrary.org
