Desperately seeking SUSY (Image: Claudia Marcelloni/CERN) Three forces unite with supersymmetry
Three decades of theorising and calculating. Entire careers spent constructing ideas. Nine billion dollars invested in an underground ring that spans two nations. Ten thousand dedicated scientists and engineers looking for the particle physics equivalent of a needle in a haystack. It’s all been leading to this moment. Small wonder that amid bated breath, you can hear a lot of nervous laughter.
“It’s got to be there, damn it!” Nobel prizewinning physicist chuckles in his office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. He’s…
