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CERN Wants Artists To Live At LHC Full Time – Merging Science & Art

In yet another addition to the long, long list of bizarre things happening at CERN and it’s Large Hadron Collider facility in Switzerland, where scientists are in search of things like the “God particle”, the researchers at the facility are producing “small” black holes in order to find their elusive particles. This is the same thing that Stephen Hawking famously said could wipe out our planet forever. A 2014 report on Hawking and his thoughts about the Higgs Boson particle’s discovery stated: “[Hawking] is warning that the particle could one day be responsible for the destruction of the known universe. Hawking is not the only scientist who thinks so. The theory of a Higgs boson doomsday, where a quantum fluctuation creates a vacuum ‘bubble’ that expands through space and wipes out the universe, has existed for a while.” Even more scary than this is CERNs very strange “art” – specifically a massive statue of Nataraja depicting the Hindu god Shiva that was installed in 2004 when the facility was first built. Nothing to see here, folks. Just a huge statue of the Goddess Shiva dancing the “Dance of Destruction”… Some people thought it was odd that CERN would choose to dedicate a statue symbolising the destruction [...]