Description
Paul Gauguin's famous painting Where do we come
from? What are we? Where are we going? deals with
some of the most fundamental questions of the
Universe. Eminent CERN theoretician Professor John
Ellis explains how the Large Hadron Collider might
address Gauguin's questions as seen by particle
physics and cosmology.
In particle physics Gauguin's questions can be
interpreted as: What is the status of particle physics,
what may lie just beyond our current understanding of
it, and just what is the `Theory of Everything'? In
cosmology: What were the earliest stages of the
Universe like, what is it made of today, and what is its
future? Physicists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in
Geneva are hoping to provide some of the answers in
the near future.
Professor Ellis earned his PhD in theoretical physics at
Cambridge University, and is an Elected Fellow of the
Royal Society of London. Ellis has many scientific
honours to his name, including the Maxwell Medal and
the Paul Dirac Prize from the Institute of Physics. He is
also an Honorary Doctor at Uppsala University.
