Finding the so-called Higgs boson, or “God particle”, is only one of the objectives when the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is started up in Geneva shortly. What is seen or discovered prior to the emergence of the Higgs particle is just as important.
However, if the theorists are right, before it ever finds the Higgs, the LHC will see the first outline of something far bigger: the grand, overarching theory known as supersymmetry. SUSY, as it is endearingly called, is a daring theory that doubles the number of particles needed to explain the world. And it could be just what particle physicists need to set them on the path to fresh enlightenment.
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