Supersymmetry

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Noun
  1. 1
    A theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces and which proposes a physical symmetry between bosons and fermions. uncountable, usually

    "We suggest therefore that the expression "super-symmetry" might be more appropriate for the global concept and reserve the word "gauge" for local symmetries."

  2. 2
    (physics) a theory that tries to link the four fundamental forces wordnet

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susysusy

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"Results from the Large Hadron Collider mean that supersymmetry theorists may have to come up with a new theory of sub-atomic physics."

Etymology

From super- + symmetry. In the modern physics sense, coined by Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam and American physicist John Strathdee in 1974 as super-symmetry, in a paper in Physics Letters B as a simplification of super-gauge symmetry used by Julius Wess and Bruno Zumino.

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