How to Use supersymmetry in a Sentence
supersymmetry
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Not everybody is ready to give up on supersymmetry or to pay off bets.
—Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 19 June 2017
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The five-year extension signed in June 2011 came due this summer, and no supersymmetry particles have shown up.
—Quanta Magazine, 22 Aug. 2016
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Hence the unwillingness to give up on GUTs and supersymmetry.
—The Economist, 13 Jan. 2018
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And some macroscopic signatures of the theory that might have been seen, such as cosmic strings and supersymmetry, have not shown up.
—Quanta Magazine, 18 Dec. 2017
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Today, the cosmos’s origin story is in question, the identity of dark matter is anyone’s guess and supersymmetry is all but off the table, leaving gaps in our laws of nature.
—Quanta Magazine, 21 Dec. 2018
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Since the 1980s, the most popular proposal has been supersymmetry.
—Quanta Magazine, 27 May 2015
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The failure to find any of the phenomena predicted by Grand Unified Theories, supersymmetry and the like is not a reason to stop trying, through experiments both small and grand.
—The Economist, 11 Jan. 2018
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Many of their ideas for explaining them, such as Grand Unified Theories and supersymmetry, are now themselves several decades old.
—The Economist, 11 Jan. 2018
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This link comes from supersymmetry, a theory in particle physics that proposes a deep symmetry between the particles that make up matter and those that carry forces.
—Quanta Magazine, 7 Dec. 2022
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One, supersymmetry, suggested that the universe might be littered with undiscovered particles that could act like dark matter.
—Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2020
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Even though none of them turned up, that has ended up being informative, killing off a huge range of potential models for other particles and causing plenty of people to rethink models based on the idea of supersymmetry.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 25 June 2020
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This is the core concept of supersymmetry (SUSY), a set of theories that have profoundly shaped successive generations of today’s researchers.
—Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2022
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While there is compelling circumstantial evidence for supersymmetry, as yet there is no direct proof.
—Quanta Magazine, 28 Feb. 2017
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One possibility is that an extension of the standard model, called supersymmetry, is true.
—Don Lincoln, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
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One of my favorite models [of supersymmetry] is getting excluded.
—Adam Mann, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2013
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What the world’s physicists have wanted for almost 30 years is any sign of phenomena called supersymmetry, which has hovered just out of reach like a golden apple, a promise of a hidden mathematical beauty at the core of reality.
—Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 19 June 2017
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Take, for example, the research program on supersymmetry.
—Philip Ball, WIRED, 2 June 2018
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Lykken is looking forward to two big, interlinked post-Higgs discoveries: supersymmetry and dark matter.
—Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2013
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Beautiful, all-encompassing theories such as supersymmetry, which predicts a complete set of mirror-image particles for all the ones in the Standard Model, were in vogue; the subtleties of neutrino oscillations were not.
—Quanta Magazine, 28 Oct. 2021
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Supergravity, which combines principles of general relativity and supersymmetry, brings the field of physics one step closer to a unified theory of nature and the cosmos.
—Erin Woo, The Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2019
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Finally, there is the news—or lack thereof—from the latest particle accelerators, which have not found any evidence for the extra particles predicted by supersymmetry, an idea that string theory relies on.
—Adam Becker, Scientific American, 20 Jan. 2022
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After decades of searching, no experimental evidence for supersymmetry has been found.
—Joseph Lykken, Scientific American, 12 May 2014
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Loeb points out that many of the most fashionable research topics in physics — other than supersymmetry, ideas like extra-spatial dimensions, string theory, multiverses — lack much experimental backing.
—Farhad Manjoo New York Times, Star Tribune, 12 Feb. 2021
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In 1975 Freedman realized that supersymmetry could be extended to include gravity.
—Philip Ball, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2019
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As the name of the article implies, interest in the octonions has been rekindled by their surprising relationship to recent developments in theoretical physics, including supersymmetry, string theory and M-theory.
—Michael Moyer, Scientific American, 4 May 2011
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According to supersymmetry, every elementary quarticle has a mate in the opposite kingdom, its superpartner.
—Quanta Magazine, 28 Feb. 2017
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Unfortunately, results from the Large Hadron Collider have eliminated natural versions of supersymmetry.
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 29 Apr. 2018
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