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Single Idea 21159

[filed under theme 27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 5. Unified Models / c. Supersymmetry ]

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.

The 5 ideas with the same theme [every particle once had a super-partner]:

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]