Supersymmetry

I found a more simplistic explanation of this interesting quantum physics theory. It made sense to me. Maybe it'll make sense to me. Yes, I know I said this before.

Before we delve into supersymmetry, let's talk about where this idea came from. That would be the Standard Model of particle physics. Before the standard model came into existence the situation with particles was that they were confusing. It was a literal particle zoo. Physicists didn't like this chaos so they grouped particles into families. There are particles that are the building blocks of matter, which they called fermions. The second family consists of particles that interact and they called them bosons.

The fermions consist of the various flavors (up, down, charm, strange, top and bottom) of quarks. These are particles that cannot occupy the same place at the same time. In other words they can't have the same quantum numbers or values (spin, mass, energy). Leptons are also fermions. Leptons are particles like electrons and neutrinos.
Bosons on the other hand can occupy the same place at the same time. These particles consist of things like the photon, which is light, and stuff like gluons that hold matter particles together, as well as the Higgs boson, which imparts mass to the fermions.

If you were to place these families of particles into four adjacent boxes, made by drawing a horizontal line and then a vertical line. You would have two boxes with nothing in them, and the fermions in one box would outnumber the bosons in the other box. Some physicists don't like this because it's out of balance. It's not symmetrical. Supersymmetry theory says that there should be particles that are partners to the particles in the other families. In other words, fermions would have partner fermions.
For example the quarks would have Squarks (Super-quarks). The electron would have a Selecron. The Higgs boson would be called the Higgsino. The Graviton would have the Gravitino. These are not my names. Basically, every known particle would have a superpartner. And, everything would be balanced.

What's wrong with this theory? The answer is that none of these superpartner particles have been discovered. However, to be fair, there could be lots of undiscovered particles. Physicists just need to do more work to find them.

Recently, physicists thought they had found Particle-X, but it turned out that the data was a fluke. This particle could have been an interdimensional graviton or gravitino. A discovery like that would have changed everything, not to mention awarding someone a Nobel Prize.

That's science for you.

Thanks for reading.