Super Symmetry

Super symmetry has been in the news of late because of Dr. Michio Kaku, the theoretical physicist at the City College of New York, who has cited this theory as the reason to believe that the universe was created by a higher intelligence. Basically, he claiming that there is no such thing as chance.

Okay, what the heck is Super Symmetry?

This theory goes back to 1966 and Hironani Miyazawa, a Japanese particle physicist. It established a symmetry relationship between mesons and baryons. Mesons are hadronic particles that consist of one quark and one antiquark bound together by the strong nuclear interaction. Baryons are also hadronic particles that consist of three quarks. Hadrons are particles that consist of quarks held together by the strong nuclear force. These are the things that make up matter.

The current Super Symmetry theory theorizes a relationship between bosons and fermions. Notable bosons are photons and gluons. These are particles that carry force. The Higgs boson carries mass. Fermions are the particles that make up matter, like protons, neutrons and electrons.

What Super Symmetry says is that each particle in one class would have a super partner in the other class. Why this theory is theoretical is because all of these partner particles have not been discovered. All of the current discovered particles exist in the Standard Model, which shows the particles and their characteristics of spin, mass, and energy. The bosons have an integer spin while the fermions have a half-integer spin.

For example the electron would have a symmetrical particle known as the selectron, which means superpartner electron. Personally, I think this idea is like trying to name the classes of angels. However, particle physicists believe that super symmetry would solve a lot of particularly difficult problems in quantum physics.

One of the reasons that these super symmetry partners particles have not been discovered with the Hadron Collider is because it will require detectors that can record energies in the 3 TeV and 5 TeV class. These are extremely high energies and will require upgrades to the present detectors.

What could be discovered with these improvements?

One would be a candidate for a Dark Energy particle. Another would solve Einstein's equations for super gravity, the Holy Grail of theoretical physics, which is combining the three other forces with quantum gravity for a grand theory.
The bad news is that super symmetry would require doubling the number of particles that have already been discovered. Sounds to me that this is great theory for getting lots of research grants.

Would this help Michio prove that an intelligent being created the universe? He says that it would because it would help string theory prove that that the Big Bang wasn't a bang at all and that it was the result of the perfection of string theory math.

Could be, but I would like to see further evidence.

Thanks for reading.