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LHC Data Continues To Disagree With Supersymmetry

Posted by timothy on from the good-because-I'm-not-super-symmetrical dept.

decora writes "Pallab Ghosh of the BBC reports on another piece of evidence hitting the beleaguered Supersymmetry community. Scientists at the Lepton Photon conference in Mumbai, India confirmed that extra levels of B-Meson decay have not been found in the LHC beauty experiment. Coming on the heels of a March report in Nature, this news seems to reinforce what many have suspected all along. Dark Matter is probably not explainable through massive shadow particles like squarks and selectrons, and for all practical purposes, the Supersymmetric Extension of the Standard Model of Physics is dead."

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  1. Re:Shortsightedness is a weakness by mfwitten · · Score: 3, Informative

    Around 240 BC, Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth to an error of less than 2%.

  2. Re:What is with this... by belg4mit · · Score: 5, Informative

    Try this then: http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersymmetry

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  3. Re:What is with this... by sg_oneill · · Score: 4, Informative

    But particle physics in particular seems to have vanished up its own asshole in the last couple of decades Every problem seems to be solved by inventing a new particle which will show up if only we spend ten times as much on the next machine

    That doesn't mean they are wrong however. As a physicist friend put it to me, "The more we study the universe the only thing we can be certain about it, is that the universe is actually very fucking wierd".

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