Idle musings

SHIVA AND CAPRA     I usually write a "quotation for the week" on my whiteboard at work. The quotation is sometimes random and sometimes related to personal or social events. Sunday, 10-Mar-13 was Maha Shivaratri and my quotation on Monday for the week ahead was a comment by the physicist Fritjof Capra : ".... Every subatomic particle not only performs an energy dance, but also is an energy dance; a pulsating process of creation and destruction…without end…For the modern physicists, then Shiva's dance is the dance of subatomic matter. ....". I have no t read Capra's book "Th e Tao of Physics" but I must do so, eventually.     I had a tough time writing all of the quotation into my whiteboard ! It took 4 lines, leaving lesser space for scribbling during discussions. I wrote it because I like the idea that Hindu mythology has parallels in modern physics. Then I realized I hardly understood the statement though I had written it !! What did Capra mean