• Question: What would YOU try to discover if you build the condensed and more powerful LHC?

    Asked by sam2208 to Jimmy on 13 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: James Holloway

      James Holloway answered on 13 Mar 2013:

      If I could spend lots of money I’d build the next collider to probe whether Super Symmetry was physical or false. Super Symmetry says for each particle, there is a much heavier partner.

      No super symmetric particles were discovered at the LHC which cast doubt on super symmetry, but we have to go to much higher collision energies to be sure of whether super symmetry is real or not.

      I say this because if it is real then the universe is so much more complex than we thought! It would be back to the drawing board.

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