Particles Creating Sound, Sound Creating Form

I was already planning on sharing this video today when a post at Maggie's Secret Garden caught my attention. Yesterday, scientists working at the Hadron Collider announced that they have simulated the god particle signal as sound. Before reading this news I wasn't even aware there was a 'god particle,' but apparently finding it (technically it's called the Higgs boson) is the primary aim of the LHC experiment because it will "provide an insight into the nature of all matter."

Here is the sound...



The Hadron Collider is located at CERN, the European Center for Research in Particle Physics where a 6 foot tall bronze statue of Shiva Nataraja stands at the entrance, performing his cosmic dance and reminding us to "be not afraid" of the inevitable cycle of creation and destruction, of birth and death. A plaque accompanies the statue and explains the significance of the metaphor with several passages from The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism by Fritjof Capra:

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, seeing beyond the unsurpassed rhythm, beauty, power and grace of the Nataraja, once wrote of it "It is the clearest image of the activity of God which any art or religion can boast of."

More recently, 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."

Sound. Creation. Form. Chanting. The Cosmic Dance. Science. Spirituality. Singing. Amen. Aum. The concept spans so many religious traditions, ancient as humanity itself. It's all so fascinating.

"Waheguru!" chant the Sikhs, "Wow. God."