The Shiva statue at CERN is often misunderstood. It depicts Shiva as Nataraja, a symbol of process, not worship. His dance represents cycles of creation, destruction, and renewal. The statue was a diplomatic gift from India, a long-standing CERN partner, and is used as metaphor rather than religion. In particle physics, matter and energy constantly form, collapse, and transform. Particles appear and vanish. Systems move through unstable states. | Michael LaPalme

Human Sacrifice to Shiva at CERN? Investigation launched after video of ‘spoof’ ritual emerges Officials from CERN, an organization hosting the largest particles physics laboratory in the world, are looking for those involved in a rather disturbing video aiming to show a fake ritual human sacrifice on campus. The footage shot at night in front of a Shiva statue on the premises of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) campus in Geneva shows people in black cloaks and a woman in a