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true nature of either Eminent physicists Werner Heisenberg amongst them, declared that there is an element of caprice in atomic behaviour which stems from the very nature of matter and cannot be blamed on man's coarse-grained implements They added further that there is an element of indeterminacy about the events of the atomic universe which cannot be dispelled by the refinement of measurements and hence it is fuule to hope that invention of more delicate tools may enable us to penetrate further into the microcosm A physicist can give an accurate account of electron behaviour so long as he is dealing with great numbers- of them collectively but he cannot locate an individual electron in space in respect of its position and velocity The Principle of Uncertainty asserts that it is impossible to determine the position and velocity of an individual electron at the same time because by the very act of observing its position, its velocity is changed and conversely, the more accurately its velocity is determined, the more indefinite its position becomes
The motion of paramāņu in space is subject to the following rules also
Spontaneous motion is in 'anusreni' which literally means straight line but which really means the minumum distance between the two space points if the geometry of the Lokākāśa is Euclidian then it will be a straight line but if this geometry is non-Euclidian then the minimum distance may be a curved line Since the space of Lokākāsa is accepted to close upon itself, the latter alternative is a greater possibility According to the rules and propagation of radiation in space light also travels in a straight line (if free from the influence of external forces ) But the modern cosmology accepts the geometry of the space
