Jainism & Applied Physics

Applied Physics

• Ajivakaya dharmadharma kasa pudgalah: 5/1
  Dravyani jivas cha: 5/2 kalaschetyeke : 5/38
• Media of dharma (motion) & adharma (inertia- rest), space, matter and souls are Dravyas (substances). Time is also a substance according to some preachers.

Adharmastikaya

• All that we see in universe is

4% matter
1% dark matter
75% dark energy – is it Adharmastikaya

or is it supporting the inertia as against

Dharmastikaya which supports motion

Applied Physics

Vartana parinamah kriya paratva – paratve cha kalasya: 5/22

• The functions of time are:
• Becoming (Inspiring), change, motion & sequence.

Research area

• Time in physics: several, but not related (six) Absolute time, astronomical time, change etc.

Sarira-van-manah-prana-panah pudgalanam : 5/19

• Matter functions as the material cause of body, speech, mind & breath.

Sukha-dukha-jivita-maranopagrahas cha: 5/20

• The production of pleasure, pain, life & death is also due to matter (chemical properties).
  Research area

MACH’s Principle

• The inertial mass of a particle is a result of the “interaction” of mass of other bodies in the rest of the universe

Extending it to life

• Life: Life of even the smallest being is a result of “interaction” of life in the rest of the universe.
  “No one can survive by himself” That is if I destroy all life for this earth, I will automatically cease to exist. So when I destroy any life, I also destroy a part of myself.

This immediately leads to the principle of non-violence

We are all entangled

• Entanglement : EPR paradox

Whatever happened to one particle would thus immediately affect the other particle, wherever in the universe it may be.

Einstein called this “Spooky action at a distance.”

Laws of Physics

• Laws governing Macro world and micro-world are different: Classical (Whole= sum of the parts)
  Quantum (dual behavior of electron or photon)
• Some states in quantum world are indescribable What is called avyakta. Seven such states are possible: May be yes, May be No, May be both, may be indescribable, may be yes and indescribable, May be No and indescribable, May be both and indescribable (Saptabhangi)
• As we go to the world of finer and finer (sukshma——–) particles, new properties (or attributes) come into play (In science they are termed as quantum numbers or states) and all do not exist at once. Many of them could be contradictory properties. This is the basic nature of certain things

(multifacedness = Anekantavad).

Thus I have argued that anekantavad is a physical reality