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RE: Going back to the very first moments of the universe at the LHC at CERN

in #steemstem • 7 years ago

Did you guys know that they got a statue from India?
A dancing Shiva statue which can represent him as Shiva the Destroyer :D

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    Destruction is part of creation. You can see it even in the seasons: look how destructive autumn is. ;)

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      Exactly :)

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         7 years ago (edited) 

        Yes I know. :)

        Do you know why there is a statue of Shiva there (on top of the India gift reason)? I will give the answer that can be also found everywhere on the web today:

        In the Hindu religion, this form of the dancing Lord Shiva is known as the Nataraj and symbolises Shakti, or life force. As a plaque alongside the statue explains, the belief is that Lord Shiva danced the Universe into existence, motivates it, and will eventually extinguish it. Carl Sagan drew the metaphor between the cosmic dance of the Nataraj and the modern study of the 'cosmic dance' of subatomic particles.

        See **here**, for instance, for more information.

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