Seeking Answers to Gauguin's Questions

30.09.2020

In a well-known painting, the French painter Paul Gauguin posed three fundamental questions: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? In scientific terms Gauguin's questions are: What happened after the beginning of the universe? What is the structure of matter? What will the future of the universe be? This talk describes how experiments at CERN are trying to answer these questions, and also how they are supporting humanity in Covid's time.

John Ellis

Theoretical Physicist at CERN. He researches phenomenological aspects of elementary particle physics and its connections with astrophysics, cosmology and quantum gravity.