The Elegant Universe

Marko Djuric is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centro de Fisica do Porto of the Porto University. He received his PhD in high energy theoretical physics in 2010 at Brown University in Providence, USA. He joined Centro de Fisica do Porto in 2011, and has been working on string theory and quantum chromodynamics.

Since the dawn of time, we have looked at the Universe in search for answers. We will see how through the millennia our quest has changed our understanding of fundamental concepts such as space, time and the very fabric of the Universe and has lead us to string theory which attempts to unify everything into one elegant cosmic symphony, and to the recent possible discovery at the LHC of the Higgs boson, a particle which gives mass to other particles.