Lord Shiva, Natraj Statue at CERN laboratory, Switzerland

If you think Science and God can not be together,you are wrong. There is the statue of God Natraj (lord Shiva) at CERN (The European Organization for Nuclear Research), Switzerland.

This is the same laboratory where the great experiment was taken place where the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the particle accelerator machine discovered God particle or Higgs Boson. Scientists at CERN use the world’s largest and most complex scientific instruments to study the basic constituents of matter the fundamental particles. Particles are made to collide together at close to the speed of light. This process gives the physicists clues about how the particles interact, and provides insights into the fundamental laws of nature.

The CERN laboratories has a two meter tall statue of Lord Shiva performing Tandava. Lord Shiva who is also known as Nataraj, symbolizes life force. Tandava exists in five forms which shows the cosmic cycle for creation and destruction.

According to Quantum field theory, the dance of the creation & destruction is the basis of the very existence of the matter. Modern physics had this revealed that every subatomic particle not only performs an energy dance, but also is an energy dance; a pulsating process of creation and destruction. For the modern physicists then , Shiva’s dance is the dance of subatomic matter, the basis of all existence and of all natural phenomena.

The Natraj statue was given to CERN laboratory as a gift from India to celebrate its association with CERN, which remains strong even today. In Hinduism, Lord Shiva. Nataraj dance which symbolises Shakti, or life force. Physicist Fritjof Capra further explained in The Tao of Physics: “The Dance of Shiva symbolises the basis of all existence. At the same time, Shiva reminds us that the manifold forms in the world are not fundamental, but illusory and ever changing. 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.”

There are several references in quantum physics which trace can be found in Hindu Purans and Vedas. Scientists are doing research over it which were written thousands of years ago.