SUSY is still a joke

Supersymmetry is super silly.

Exactly eight years ago to the day since I posted the blog titled ’SUSY is a joke,’ SUSY is still a joke. There has not been an iota of progress, and there will never ever be any, simply because supersymmetry is fake.

As mentioned in that short blog, an idiot then had said that “It is such a powerful new mathematical symmetry that it would be a shame if Nature didn’t make use of it.” This is his limited understanding of how Nature works. He is as anthropocentric as the Old Testament. He can only interpret the Universe and Nature in terms of human values and judgments. If the mathematical symmetry is ’powerful,’ then Nature must make use of it. The little problem here is that mathematics is a product of the human mind, and the Nature couldn’t care less about any living being including humans. It is not confined by the way humans think, or by the tools humans make use of to try to describe the Universe or Nature.

According to Quantum Physics, the fundamental particles in the subatomic world have a property known as “spin,” i.e., intrinsic angular momentum, in addition to their charge and mass, that does not have any correspondence in the macroscopic world. Some of them like the electron have a spin of ½, while other particles like the photon have a spin of 1. Nobody can visualize or explain the spinning of a massless photon, the quantum of the electromagnetic field including light, but that is another problem.

The physicists claim that there are two “families” of particles―those with half-integer (1/2, 3/2, 5/2, etc.) spin, and those with whole-integer (0, 1, 2, etc.) spin. The former are called ’fermions,’ and made up of the building blocks of the Universe―electrons, quarks, neutrinos, and so on. The latter are called ’bosons,’ and are the supposed carriers of the forces of Nature: photons, gluons, etc.

And then there were those ’morons,’ a group of particle physicists who began to look at spin about a half a century ago, in the early Seventies, and wondered if they could impose a symmetry on Nature to unite these two families of particles to provide a self-consistent Quantum Theory unifying all particles and forces in Nature, and arrogantly called the non-existent symmetry the supersymmetry. 

Basically, what they tried to prove was that every fermion would have a “superpartner particle”  in the boson world, and vice versa, with the exact same mass and charge but a different spin. They wanted this phantom supersymmetry to provide a relationship between the elementary particles that make up matter, fermions, and the “force-carrier” particles that transmit the fundamental interactions of matter, bosons, and to show that one type of particle is actually a different facet of the other type, so that the number of basic families of particles would be reduced from two to one.

Almost fifty years have passed, and to date, no evidence for supersymmetry has been found  whatsoever. Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider have ruled out the simplest supersymmetric models. They were delusional: somehow, this symmetry must have been broken in the Universe billions of years ago, driving up the masses of the super partners outside the range of the particle colliders. They could not prove this. Therefore, the problems in incomplete particle physics with severe and well-established limitations continue to persist. Supersymmetry is a massively and miserably failed theory.

What should they think of next? They will find something else to captivate the ignorant masses who are ready to be fascinated anyway by writing popular books, and hence to keep the Federal research grants flowing to make ends meet. This the only reality.