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JAIN PHILOSOPHY & MODFNN SCIENCE of energy and matter which are accepted as two modes of the same thing. Jainologists considered all forms of light to be material, but science believed them to be only energy (different from matter). Jainologists had categorically stated "There is no separate reality called energy different from matter The thing which we call energy in science is but a minute or fine form of matter" It is gratifying to learn that science has now accepted this as, a proved fact
Does energy possess mass? According to Galilean or Newtonian principles the answer to this question was a plain 'No'. But Einstein's Theory of Relativity proves that energy is not without mass, but does possess mass in definite proportions The mass of the thermal energy requred to convert one thousand tons of water will be just under 1/30 gramme But more simply it can be said that the mass of the thermal energy produced by the combustion of 3000 tons of coal will be approximately one 'masra' Energy was not believed to be matter because it possesscs very little mass That is why it was considered as a mass-less propagation.
Radiation from sun is also energy Max Born has shown that 'the sun loses in one year 138,00,00,00,000 tons of mass by its radiations' 15 In the same book he says that 'energy and mass are just different
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