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THE JAINA PHILOSOPHY
MECHANICS AND MATHEMATICS OF PARA. MANU
Berkeleyaltnbuted the functional harmony of nature to God Modern physicists (who do not like to take recourse to God) prefer to emphasise that nature operates on mathematical principles In 1900 Max Planck put forth his Quantum theory, dealing with the fundamental units of matter and energy It provides equations that define with great accuracy the laws governing the propagation of radiant energy The extraordinary feature of this theory was that it rested on the assumption that radiant energy is emitted not in an unbroken stream but in disconunuous bits or portions which Planck termed 'quanta'
On purely theoretical grounds he concluded that each quantum carries an amount of energy given by the equation E= hv where v is the frequency of radiation and his Planck's constant. a small but inexorable number which has since proved to be one of the most fundamental constant in nature All forms of radiant energy-light heat X-rays-actually travel through space in separate and discontinuous quanta and the amount of emitted energy divided by the frequency is always equal to h Thus sensation of colour anise from the bombardment of our optic nerves by light quanta which differ from each other just as the frequency vanes in the equation E=hv.
Another universal constant is the velocity of light which was accurately determined in 1849 to be 186,284 miles per second * The velocity of light is unaffected by the motion of earth, sun moon, star or
29 The latest value of Planck's constant is determined to be 6 625 17 x 10-34 joule-second 30 The latest corrected value is determined to be
2 997925 x 108 meters per second in vacuum
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