Saturday, February 2, 2013

நம் முன்னோர்களின் அறிவுத் திறம்...

"கடவுள் துகள் " எனப்படும் ஹிக்ஸ் போசன் துகளை கண்டறிந்த (European Council for Nuclear Research) எனப்படும் CERN தலைமையக வாசலில் வைக்கப்பட்டு உள்ள இந்த நடராசர் சிலை(2 மீட்டர்), தஞ்சை மாவட்டம், குடந்தை அருகே உள்ள சுவாமிமலையை சேர்ந்த சிற்பிகளால் வடிவமைக்கப்பட்டது. சிவன் ஆடும் தாண்டவத்தை COSMIC DANCE எனக் குறிப்பிட்டு அவருக்கு இந்த மரியாதை வழங்கப்பட்டு உள்ளது.

சுவிட்சர்லாந்த் தலைநகரம் ஜெனிவாவில் அமைந்திருக்கும் இந்த மையத்தில் உள்ள நடராஜரின் சிலையைப் படத்தில் பார்க்கலாம்.

The picture above was taken in front of the CERN(European Council for Nuclear Research) complex in Geneva, Switzerland. This statue of Shiva Nataraj is casting a shadow on the headquarters building. Is this a message “from the universe” about the destructive potential of a particle accelerator which collides opposing streams of protons and most recently lead ions

The Lord of Dance is a depiction of the Hindu god Shiva as the cosmic dancer who performs his divine dance to destroy a weary universe and make preparations for god Brahma to start the process of creation. Nataraja is most often depicted through a statue. The dance of Shiva in Tillai, the traditional name for Chidambaram, forms the motif for all the depictions of Shiva as Nataraja. He is also known as “Sabesan” which splits as “Sabayil aadum eesan” in Tamil which means “The Lord who dances on the dais”.

Fritjof Capra explained that "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 that "For the modern physicists, then, Shiva's dance is the dance of subatomic matter."

It is indeed as Capra concluded: "Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas 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.

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