Supersymmetry

Super symmetry is a scientific theory that says that when elementary particles (such as photons, electrons, and quarks) were formed at the beginning of the universe, matching kinds of theoretical "super particles" were also created.^[1] If this theory is true, it would at least double the kinds of particles in the universe. If the universe has extra dimensions (M-Theory by Edward Witten predicts up to 11) then there would also be more ways to have symmetry and more kinds of super particles.

Many scientists hope to prove super symmetry because it fills many gaps in the Standard Model of physics (including dark matter) and would give support to the ideas of string theory.^[2] However, experiments in the Large Hadron Collider have not found evidence of super symmetry so far.

Super symmetry was the idea of Hironari Miyazawa (b. 1927).^[3][4][5][6]

References

1. Murayama, Hitoshi. "Introduction to Supersymmetry". University of California at Berkeley. Archived from the original on 2010-06-28. Retrieved 2015-04-02.
2. Dickerson, Kelly (2015-03-19). "Here's how proving supersymmetry could completely change how we understand the universe". Business Insider.
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4. H. Miyazawa (1968). "Spinor Currents and Symmetries of Baryons and Mesons". Phys. Rev. 170 (5): 1586–1590. Bibcode:1968PhRv..170.1586M. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.170.1586.
5. P. G. O. Freund (1988). Introduction to Supersymmetry (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-35675-6.
6. S. Catto (2008). "Miyazawa Supersymmetry" (PDF). AIP Conf. Proc. 1011 (1): 253–258. Bibcode:2008AIPC.1011..253C. doi:10.1063/1.2932297.