Guys! I love you! Just in case Cern FUBERS!

[sprinkles]

My personal point of view is that the worst that could happen is human's figure out how to spawn their own little pet universes without actually having the emotional and spiritual maturity to not exploit them. It would make bypassing our current issues too easy and once again save us the trouble of having to evolve and better ourselves first.

I suppose. How do we know this didn't already happen? Maybe we're living in a universe created in such a way and it was forgotten.

 

[INTP]

What was conveniently left out is that Shiva isn't a demon, but an enlightened Yogi and his destruction is the destruction of the ego and illusion. He is the gate keeper of higher consciousness. So it makes sense he would be venerated in a scientific organisation that see themselves as bringing humanity out of ignorance.

Shiva is a god(one of the primary gods), not a yogi, even tho "In benevolent aspects, he is depicted as an omniscient Yogi" -wiki. But shiva doesent even have avatar like many of the other gods, because he is beyond everything. But some say that shiva has many avatars, or to be more precise, aspects of him have avatars. Also because of so many traditions say slightly different things about him, its really not worth arguing about.

This Aum(ॐ, also sometimes written Om) represents shakti(divine energy) which has 3 aspects A = Brahma(creation), U = Vishnu(preservation) and M = Shiva(liberation or/and destruction).

But yes, this thing also applies to destruction of ego, not just the universe, these old religions like to combine things in this manner.

If you look at the theory of cyclical model( Cyclic model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ) of the universe, you could say that brahma is the big bang, vishnu preserves the universe between the cycles and shiva is the big crunch(end of the cycle).

Also one funny thing about this, it is said that shiva had his eyes covered by his feminine aspect parvati, which made the earth go dark, then a flame came from shivas forehead and revealed his third eye, which gave light to the world again. But if shiva is to open the third eye completely(his third eye is half closed), the universe is destroyed.

 

[sprinkles]

Thought of Homestuck for some reason.

 

[grey_beard]

Death is who we are, bring it on.

For some reason, that quote is just so...WRONG with your Tinkerbell cartoon next to it...

 

[grey_beard]

They've already done an uncountable number of particle collisions. Some were worried this could happen before and it hasn't.

What they mean by creating the Big Bang is that they're knocking particles together at high velocity to see what comes off in the debris from the collision pretty much, and they've already had millions of little Big Bangs. There's only so many ways you can bang stuff together (mainly one, which is banging stuff together) and all they really did is up the power.

Has anyone consulted Dr. Sheldon Cooper about this?

...or, given post #15, Raj Koothrapali?