Scientific Secrets of Jainism

Author(s): Nandighoshvijay
Publisher: Research Institute of Scientific Secrets from Indian Oriental Scriptures Ahmedabad

Page 64

Light : Waves Or Particles ?
33
contradiction between the two is that the energy of a soul is self-controlled, while the energy of a pudgala is controlled by a living being. Every paramāņu of a pudgala has colour, smell, taste and touch (tangibility) and they are the characteristics of a pudgala. Whererver one experiences colour, smell etc. by means of sense organs, aggregates of paramāņus have to be present there. Every object is essetially paudgalic (material). These objects are sometimes so insignificant that their colour, taste, smell and touch are not perceptible to sense organs, but their existence cannot be denied on that ground; e.g. though ultraviolet rays and infra-red rays cannot be pereceived by our eyes, their effect is received on photographic plates.
In the wake of progress in physics it becomes all the more significant to know whether light consists of rays or particles. Are the objects known to classical physics as waves, really waves or are they particles ? If they are really in the form of particles, why is it that they behave like waves ? This needs to be explained. Different types of waves - rays of visible or invisible light, sound waves of different wavelengths, ultrasonic waves of very high frequency and infrasonic of very low frequency, which are not audible and electromagnetic waves of different frequency and different wavelengths, which are useful in broadcasting radio signals and television signals and signals of other transmitters are known to classical physics. Are all these rays in the form of waves or particles ? This is a very important question of modern physics and we shall try to find its solution.
Jain scriptures state that Sabda (sound), Andhakāra (darkness), Udyota (coolling, soothing light i.e. moonlight). Ātapa (hot light i.e. sunlight), Prabhā (irregular spread reflection, interference etc. of light) are modifications of prime matter. All the aforesaid phenomena are constituted of microscopic particles (paramāņus) of matter. In the fifth chapter of Tattvārtha Sūtra, Umāsvāti, while defining pudgala (the prime matter) says - pūrayanti galayanti iti pudgalāḥ (gryfa Tupa sa E TIE). In pudgala (the prime matter the process of splitting i.e. fission and combination i.e. fusion of particles is ever going on. No object remains in the same condition forever. e.g. There are billions of cells in our body. Lakhs of them are destroyed every moment and they are replaced by nearly as many newly created cells.
In atomic physics the process of fission and fusion is the best examples
Jain Education International.