CERN experiment – Glimpse of Shiva’s dance?

Vedic wisdom explains anything and everything of this Universe.

Even if it is about destruction, it had been explained well in Sanatanic knowledge, because anything that is created will have to find its end someday and who else, but Shiva is the indicator of how this would happen.

Long ago when the first atom bomb was tested, it was correlated to Lord’s depiction of Himself as Death incarnate.

J. Robert Oppenheimer, known as the father of Atom bomb recalled the wisdom of the ‘Gita’ in the terrible power of explosion of the Atom bomb.

“If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one. Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

A similar awesome depiction is expected in the CERN experiment of today.

The CERN scientists have related this to Shiva’s dance.

Interestingly Shiva has kindled their mind so much that a statue of Dancing Shiva with his third eye opened has been installed at CERN in Geneva.

The statue of Nataraja, the Cosmic Dancer, Dr. Aymar, DG of CERN, Dr. Anil Kakodkar, Chairman of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary to the Government of India.

Read more from

http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2004/PR10.04ECouncil.html

Shiva's third eye has inspired millions around the globe since ages, Adobe being the latest one. Before that, CERN was inspired by it. Its the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as a highly respected centre for nuclear research focusing primarily on fundamental physics, finding out what the universe is made of and how it works.

At CERN, the world's largest and most complex scientific instruments are used to study the basic constituents of matter — the fundamental particles. By studying what happens when these particles collide, physicists learn about the laws of Nature. CERN established a two metre high statue of Nataraj, the dancing form of Shiva with an open third eye at their headquarters in Geneva. A special plaque next to the Shiva statue explains the significance of the metaphor of Shiva's cosmic dance with several quotations from The Tao of Physics.

Read the complete article on

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-2841750,flstry-1.cms

In choosing the image of Shiva Nataraja, the Indian Government has acknowledged the profound significance of the metaphor of Shiva’s dance for the cosmic dance of subatomic particles, which is observed and analyzed by CERN’s physicists. The parallel between Shiva’s dance and the dance of subatomic particles was first discussed by Fritjof Capra in 1972 in an article titled ‘The Dance of Shiva: The Hindu View of Matter in the Light of Modern Physics Shiva’s cosmic dance then became a central metaphor in Capra’s international bestseller The Tao of Physics, first published in 1975 and still in print in over 40 editions around the world.

‘The Wave Structure of Matter Explains the Atomic Structure of Matter. The ‘Particle’ as the Wave-Center of a Spherical Standing Wave in Space explains the cosmic dance of Nataraja’

— FRITJOF CAPRA(1939)

A special plaque next to the Shiva statue at CERN in Geneva explains the significance of the metaphor of Shiva’s cosmic dance with several quotations from The Tao of Physics. Here is a quotation from Fritjof Capra that has been put in that special plaque ‘Modern physics has shown that the rhythm of creation and destruction is not only manifest in the turn of the seasons and in the birth and death of all living creatures, but is also the very essence of inorganic matter and for the modern physicists, then, Shiva’s dance is the dance of subatomic matter. Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created different forms of visual images of dancing Shiva in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists have used the most advanced technology to portray the patterns of the cosmic dance. The metaphor of the cosmic dance thus unifies ancient mythology, religious art and modern physics.’

Read the complete article on

http://newstodaynet.com/printer.php?id=5651

It seems the present test by CERN is a human attempt to put into test the wisdom of our scriptures. Let us see how far man is able to get at least a glimpse of it!!

(My thanks to Mr PV.Ghanesh for sending me the links mentioned in this post)