Living Systems in Jainism: A Scientific Study: 13.03.02 ►The Laws of the Subtle Cosmos

Modern science has discovered that as we go from the macro to the micro state of matter, new attributes of matter come into action and the number of attributes increases. The macro world is deterministic and follows the laws of classical mechanics. The micro world follows the laws of quantum mechanics. Some laws of classical mechanics are not valid in the micro world. It may be noted that the macro and micro worlds of science comprise eight-touch gross aggregates containing mass, i.e. higher-order varganas in bonded form. The weightless four-touch vargana subtle aggregates, which exist only in energy form, are a different class of matter. The weightless four-touch varganas do not carry fundamental forces since their paramanus are supposed to be in unbound state. Their behavior, therefore, must not be governed by the known laws of science. On extrapolating, we expect that at the subtle level of the physical world, e.g. the weightless four-touch vargana, there may be yet another set of principles in operation which is still not discovered by science.