Symmetry: Search for Eternal Life
Fataneh Mahmoudi
Reprinted from: Honar Nameh, University of Art, Tehran, No. 23, 2004 (A brief of the article)


Most people, even scholars, tend to believe symmetry is only a matter of geometry and its structure reflecting lawful evolution and design of things. However, symmetry is in reality something more than that, and if correctly defined, it can unify and bring to mind the inner meaning of things.

In fact, symmetry controls the natural forces and the structure of interactions between physical elementary particles.

It also leads science, art, religion, love, spirituality, selflessness and belief in God. The reason is, as we shall see, symmetry is in a wider scene related to survival and eternity. It is, indeed, an instrument of survival.