Oppenheimer or the Inevitability of Doom

“It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.”
J. Robert Oppenheimer

In Hindu cosmology, the world cycles between birth, life, and destruction. At the ending stage of a cycle of the universe, Shiva, manifest as Nataraj, the god of dance, performs the dance of destruction, Tandava. After the Tandava, the universe is dissolved, only to be reborn again, signifying the endless cycle of life and death in the cosmos.