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modern science in a very vague way using qualitative statements of Jainism without probing the facts and carrying out the investigation. In this context, I had been I always very curious to know the science in Jainism that can give guideline to the modern science. This motivated me to study the Jainism and probe its potentiality to help the current science.
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I attended international conference on Science and Jainism organized by Acharya Ratna 108 Sh. Kanaknandi ji Gurudev in Pratapgarh in 2003 where we had magnifi1 cent discussions on how Jainism can contribute to unravel the various mysteries of the science. We concluded that efforts to be made in this direction so as to present the in-depth potentiality of science in Jainism. Recently in an evening popular lecture in Indore organized by Kundkund Gyanpith on "Life in the Universe" I briefly I described about the visible universe, which, in fact, is very small relative to that
invisible universe. In last decade it was realized by the modern cosmology that the I significant part of the universe is not visible and it could be more than 90%. This invisible universe is composed of dark matter and dark energy (Nojiri, S, <http:// adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin author_form? author = Nojiri, + S & fullauthor = Nojiri, %20 Shin%27 Ichi & charset=ISO-8859-1 & db_key = AST> Odintsov, S. D <http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin author_form? author = Odintsov, +S & fullauthor = Odintsov,%20Sergei % 20D. & charset=ISO-8859-1 & db_key = AST>; and Stefancic, H, 2006). <http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin author_form? author = Stefancic, + H & fullauthor = Stefancic,%20 Hrvoje & charset=ISO-8859-1 & db_key = AST>
For each of the stellar, galactic, and galaxy cluster/supercluster observations the basic principle is that if we measure velocities in some region, then there has to be enough mass there for gravity to stop all the objects flying apart. When such velocity measurements are done on large scales, it turns out that the amount of inferred mass is much more than can be explained by the luminous stuff. Hence we infer that there is dark matter in the Universe.
Dark matter has important consequences for the evolution of the Universe and the structure within it (Okamoto, T <http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/ author_form?author=Okamoto,+T&fullauthor=Okamoto,%20Takashi&charset=ISO8859-1&db_key=AST> and Nagashima, M, <http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/ author_form?author-Nagashima,+M&fullauthor-Nagashima,%20Masahiro&charset=ISO8859-1&db_key=AST>2003; Nagamine, K. <http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/ author_form?author-Nagamine,+K&fullauthor-Nagamine,%20K.&charset=ISO8859-1&db_key=AST>; Fukugita, M. <http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/ author_form?author=Fukugita,+M&fullauthor=Fukugita,%20M.&charset=ISO-88591&db_key=AST>; Cen, R. <http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/ author_form?author=Cen,+R&fullauthor=Cen,%20R.&charset=ISO-8859
1&db_key=AST>; Ostriker, J. P. <http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/ author_form?author=Ostriker,+J&fullauthor=Ostriker,%20J.%20P.&charset=ISO
8859-1&db_key=AST> 2001; Chuzhoy, Leonid <http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/ author_form?author=Chuzhoy,+L&fullauthor=Chuzhoy,%20Leonid&charset=ISO
