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maximum velocity is the entire length of the universe in one samaya When in motion, the minimum distance travelled by a paramāņu in one samaya (indivisible unit of time or time point) is one space point ie the distance between two adjacent space points And the maximum distance travelled by a paramāņu in one samaja is between the extremities of the loka 34
How is this Jain view compatible with the Einstenian equation of the increase of mass and the inference that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light the theoretical speed limit of the universe?
If we accept the value mo=0, 1e a paramāņu has no mass then the equation of the increase in mass
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"the second is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the fundamental state of cessium 133 atom
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Various methods of standardisation of time in terms of the frequency of hydrogen maser are also available but the order of accuracy does not seem to exceed that of the former cases
Recently a new and simple method for standardisation of time is suggested by Mis SK Mukherjee and A Choudhury of Jadavpur University It is based on the velocity of electrons under the action of crossed electric and magnetic fields It has been shown that under certain conditions the electron will move in a rectilinear path at a constant velocity and the time taken to traverse a distance of 1 cm is 0.533 168 432 × 10 -9 second This suggestion leads to the conception of a unit of time very much smaller than the second It will be 533 168 432 × 10 -9 second In other words one second will contain 1 87557997 x 109 and one ävalikä will contain 300 000 (app) of these units
34 The maximum distance between two extremities of Loka is 14 Rajjus where a Rajju covers asamkhyāt yojanas and can be
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roughly expressed as R(Rajju) 10 10 light-years Thus the maximum velocity of a paramāņu is not less than N light-years per second where N
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