Sunday, 8 September 2013

A 2 m tall statue of Indian deity Shiva Nataraja, the Lord of Dance was given to CERN in Geneva by the Indian government

Photo: Thank you, Rajkumar Kyatham, for sharing this picture, and the following text about this picture On June 18, 2004, an unusual new landmark was unveiled at CERN, the European Center for Research in Particle Physics in Geneva - a 2 m tall statue of Indian deity Shiva Nataraja, the Lord of Dance.The statue, symbolizing Shiva's cosmic dance of creation and destruction, was given to CERN by the Indian government to celebrate the research center's long association with India. In choosing the image of Shiva Nataraja, the Indian government acknowledged the profound significance of the metaphor of Shiva's dance for the cosmic dance of subatomic particles, which is observe and analyzed by CERN's physicists.

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On June 18, 2004, an unusual new landmark was unveiled at CERN, the European Center for Research in Particle Physics in Geneva - a 2 m tall statue of Indian deity Shiva Nataraja, the Lord of Dance.The statue, symbolizing Shiva's cosmic dance of creation and destruction, was given to CERN by the Indian government to celebrate the research center's long association with India.

In choosing the image of Shiva Nataraja, the Indian government acknowledged the profound significance of the metaphor of Shiva's dance for the cosmic dance of subatomic particles, which is observe and analyzed by CERN's physicists.
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