Why are we here? This is arguably the most fundamental question in human history. Over the last few centuries, astronomers have made enormous progress toward answering this question by viewing the early universe via telescopes (as time machines). A remarkable conclusion is that our universe had its beginning called the Big Bang. According to this concept, at the very beginning, some 14 billion years ago, our universe was born as a tiny, hot, dense object. In the meantime, over the last few decades, particle physicists have successfully recreated the conditions of the early universe in particle accelerators. If we take the outcome of the latest results of these accelerator experiments seriously, the conclusion appears astonishing: there was nothing at the beginning except photons.

How could anything such as "ourselves" come from nothing? Well, there must have been a series of Symmetry Breaking which created various particles (such as protons and electrons) first, then stars and galaxies next, and then finally life and “ourselves.” Are physics laws able to explain this whole process as a natural consequence of the evolving universe? That is the primary interest and mission of Arisaka’s Lab.