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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.