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Full Idea
Supersymmetry posits heavy boson partners for all fermions, and heavy fermions for all bosons.
Gist of Idea
Supersymmetry has extra heavy bosons and heavy fermions
Source
New Scientist writers (Why the Universe Exists [2017], 02)
Book Ref
New Scientist writers: 'Why the Universe Exists' [John Murray 2017], p.39
A Reaction
The main Fermions are electron, proton and quark. Do extra bosons imply extra forces? Peter Higgs favours supersymmetry.
21159 | Supersymmetry has extra heavy bosons and heavy fermions [New Sci.] |
21162 | Only supersymmetry offers to incorporate gravity into the scheme [New Sci.] |
21172 | The evidence for supersymmetry keeps failing to appear [New Sci.] |
21173 | Supersymmetry says particles and superpartners were unities, but then split [New Sci.] |
21196 | To combine the forces, they must all be the same strength at some point [Hesketh] |