supersymmetry

noun su·per·sym·me·try \ ˌsü-pər-ˈsi-mə-trē \

Updated on: 14 Apr 2018

Definition of supersymmetry

: the correspondence between fermions and bosons of identical mass that is postulated to have existed during the opening moments of the big bang and that relates gravity to the other forces of nature

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supersymmetric

play \ˌsü-pər-sə-ˈme-trik\ adjective

Recent Examples of supersymmetry from the Web

The failure to find any of the phenomena predicted by Grand Unified Theories, supersymmetry and the like is not a reason to stop trying, through experiments both small and grand.

— The Economist, "Lord of the ringsThe next super-collider should be built in China," 11 Jan. 2018
Many of their ideas for explaining them, such as Grand Unified Theories and supersymmetry, are now themselves several decades old.

— The Economist, "Lord of the ringsThe next super-collider should be built in China," 11 Jan. 2018
Hence the unwillingness to give up on GUTs and supersymmetry.

— The Economist, "Particle physicsFundamental physics is frustrating physicists," 13 Jan. 2018
Not everybody is ready to give up on supersymmetry or to pay off bets.

— dennis overbye, New York Times, "Yearning for New Physics at CERN, in a Post-Higgs Way," 19 June 2017
What the world’s physicists have wanted for almost 30 years is any sign of phenomena called supersymmetry, which has hovered just out of reach like a golden apple, a promise of a hidden mathematical beauty at the core of reality.

— dennis overbye, New York Times, "Yearning for New Physics at CERN, in a Post-Higgs Way," 19 June 2017
One of my favorite models [of supersymmetry] is getting excluded.

— adam mann, WIRED, "Huge Dark Matter Experiment Finds Nothing but More Mysteries," 30 Oct. 2013
One of the leading updates to the Standard Model is called supersymmetry, or SUSY.

— nathaniel scharping, Discover Magazine, "New Particle Fizzles, Leaving Physicists to Soul Search," 22 Dec. 2016

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