Why is Nataraja at CERN?

Why is Nataraja at CERN?

Why does CERN have a statue of Shiva? The Shiva statue was a gift from India to celebrate its association with CERN, which started in the 1960’s and remains strong today. In the Hindu religion, Lord Shiva practiced Nataraj dance which symbolises Shakti, or life force. India is one of CERN’s associate member states.

What do the letters CERN stand for?

European Council for Nuclear Research
The name CERN is derived from the acronym for the French “Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire”, or European Council for Nuclear Research, a provisional body founded in 1952 with the mandate of establishing a world-class fundamental physics research organization in Europe.

Is Nataraja a Shiva?

Nataraja (Tamil: நடராஜர்), (Sanskrit: नटराज, romanized: Naṭarāja), is a depiction of the Hindu god Shiva as the divine cosmic dancer. The sculpture is symbolic of Shiva as the lord of dance and dramatic arts, with its style and proportions made according to Hindu texts on arts.

What is the purpose of the ATLAS detector at CERN?

CERN Accelerating science. ATLAS. ATLAS is one of two general-purpose detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It investigates a wide range of physics, from the search for the Higgs boson to extra dimensions and particles that could make up dark matter.

What is the processing function called in diagrammer?

For mermaid diagrams, DiagrammeR uses the processing function called mermaid. What you pass into mermaid is a valid graph or sequence diagram specification. The specification can either be delivered to mermaid in the form of a string, a reference to a mermaid file (with a .mmd file extension), or as a text connection.

What kind of accelerators do they have at CERN?

CERN, in collaboration with groups worldwide, is investigating two main concepts for future accelerators: A linear electron-positron collider with a new acceleration concept to increase the energy (CLIC) and a larger version of the LHC, a project currently named Future Circular Collider.

What kind of discoveries have been made at CERN?

Several important achievements in particle physics have been made through experiments at CERN. They include: 2000: The Heavy Ion Programme discovered new state of matter, the Quark Gluon Plasma. 2012: A boson with mass around 125 GeV/c 2 consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson.