"A beautiful but unproved theory of particle physics is withering in the harsh light of data.
For decades, many particle physicists have devoted themselves to the beloved theory, known as supersymmetry. But it’s beginning to seem that the zoo of new particles that the theory predicts —the heavier cousins of known particles — may live only in physicists’ imaginations. Or if such particles, known as
superpartners, do exist, they’re not what physicists expected.
New data from the world’s most powerful particle accelerator — the Large Hadron Collider, now operating at higher energies than ever before — show no traces of superpartners.
It’s a triumph for the standard model, but a letdown for physicists who hope to expose cracks in that theory. “There is a low-level panic,” says theoretical physicist Matthew Buckley of Rutgers University in Piscataway, N.J. “We had a long time without data, and during that time many theorists thought up very compelling ideas. And those ideas have turned out to be wrong.”
Physicists know that the standard model must break down somewhere.
*It doesn’t explain why the universe contains more matter than antimatter,
*and it fails to pinpoint the origins of dark matter and dark energy, which make up 95 percent of the matter and energy in the cosmos.
Even the crowning achievement of the LHC, the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, hints at the sickness within the standard model. The mass of the Higgs boson, at 125 billion electron volts, is vastly smaller than theory naïvely predicts. That mass, physicists worry, is not “natural” — the factors that contribute to the Higgs mass must be finely tuned to cancel each other out and keep the mass small.
Supersymmetry solves three major problems in physics:
*It explains why the Higgs is so light;
*it provides a particle that serves as dark matter;
*and it implies that the three forces of the standard model (electromagnetism and the weak and strong nuclear forces) unite into one at high energies."
LiveScience
1) The Universe IS FINELY TUNED (by a DESIGNER)
2) The Universe doesn't contain but trace amounts of anti-matter because the CREATOR removed the anti-matter and obviously left the matter.
3) WHATEVER Dark Matter & Dark Energy are, it exists because it was DESIGNED to exist for reasons we have yet to discover.
4) And just like for DECADES, these "superpartners" lived only in the head of theoretical scientists, based on no evidence, but taught in schools, so too can the same be said of Darwinian Macro-evolution.
5) But NO need for the Low Level Panic --- unless you end up an evolutionary atheist on the wrong end of the resurrection, and God asks you at the 2nd resurrection the following:
For decades, many particle physicists have devoted themselves to the beloved theory, known as supersymmetry. But it’s beginning to seem that the zoo of new particles that the theory predicts —the heavier cousins of known particles — may live only in physicists’ imaginations. Or if such particles, known as
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New data from the world’s most powerful particle accelerator — the Large Hadron Collider, now operating at higher energies than ever before — show no traces of superpartners.
It’s a triumph for the standard model, but a letdown for physicists who hope to expose cracks in that theory. “There is a low-level panic,” says theoretical physicist Matthew Buckley of Rutgers University in Piscataway, N.J. “We had a long time without data, and during that time many theorists thought up very compelling ideas. And those ideas have turned out to be wrong.”
Physicists know that the standard model must break down somewhere.
*It doesn’t explain why the universe contains more matter than antimatter,
*and it fails to pinpoint the origins of dark matter and dark energy, which make up 95 percent of the matter and energy in the cosmos.
Even the crowning achievement of the LHC, the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, hints at the sickness within the standard model. The mass of the Higgs boson, at 125 billion electron volts, is vastly smaller than theory naïvely predicts. That mass, physicists worry, is not “natural” — the factors that contribute to the Higgs mass must be finely tuned to cancel each other out and keep the mass small.
Supersymmetry solves three major problems in physics:
*It explains why the Higgs is so light;
*it provides a particle that serves as dark matter;
*and it implies that the three forces of the standard model (electromagnetism and the weak and strong nuclear forces) unite into one at high energies."
LiveScience
1) The Universe IS FINELY TUNED (by a DESIGNER)
2) The Universe doesn't contain but trace amounts of anti-matter because the CREATOR removed the anti-matter and obviously left the matter.
3) WHATEVER Dark Matter & Dark Energy are, it exists because it was DESIGNED to exist for reasons we have yet to discover.
4) And just like for DECADES, these "superpartners" lived only in the head of theoretical scientists, based on no evidence, but taught in schools, so too can the same be said of Darwinian Macro-evolution.
5) But NO need for the Low Level Panic --- unless you end up an evolutionary atheist on the wrong end of the resurrection, and God asks you at the 2nd resurrection the following:
Gird up now thy loins like a man;
for I will demand of thee,
and answer thou me.
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest?
Job 38:3-5