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A constellation of scientific and intellectual super-stars were shining bright in Bozeman tonight.

Earlier this evening Bozeman's Museum of the Rockies played host to the largest single gathering of Nobel Peace Price Award winners in Montana history. Eight of the Laureates attended the 'Adventures of the Mind' lecture hosted and moderated by Dr. Jack Horner. The high-powered panel tackled the topic of "The Origins of the Universe."

From string theory, to cosmology, to particle physics, the experts on hand tonight who study the universe say both the incomprehensibly large and the incomprehensibly small are all connected.

Dr. Lisa Randall is a Nobel Prize contender for her work on String Theory. She co-hosted the event with Dr. Jack Horner.

Dr. Randall told the audience, "Because the fact is we live in one universe that's had one history. And we're trying to understand it and we're trying to put together all the ideas and figure out how that could be."

Dr. Jack Horner told Montana's News Station that tonight's gathering is a huge honor for MSU-Bozeman and for Montana.

"I want people to see, I mean these are, you know, these are really cool guys and women that have done some extraordinary things. And it's just one of those things that's, you know, never gonna happen again," he said.

The Adventures of the Mind is a mentoring program for high school students sponsored by the Museum of the Rockies.