supersymmetry en · NOUN
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Etymology
From super- + symmetry. In the modern physics sense, coined by Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam and American physicist John Strathdee in 1974 as super-symmetry, in a paper in Physics Letters B as a simplification of super-gauge symmetry used by Julius Wess and Bruno Zumino.
Meanings
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(uncountable, usually) A theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces and which proposes a physical symmetry between bosons and fermions.
Supersymmetry is the concept that known particles – such as electrons, quarks and photons – have a heavier and as-yet-undetected "superpartner".
2013 November 22, Alok Jha, “Stephen Hawking: physics would be 'more interesting' if Higgs boson hadn't been found”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 24, page 32:We suggest therefore that the expression "super-symmetry" might be more appropriate for the global concept and reserve the word "gauge" for local symmetries.
1974, A Salam, “Super-symmetry and non-Abelian gauges”, in Physics Letters B:
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fr supersymétrie (theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces) · is ofursamhverfa (theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces) · cmn 超對稱 /超对称 (theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces) · kk суперсимметрия (theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces) · gu અતિસમમિતિ (theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces) · ca supersimetria (theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces) · pt supersimetria (theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces) · gl supersimetría (theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces) · fi supersymmetria (theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces) · vi siêu đối xứng (theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces) · de Supersymmetrie (theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces) · pl supersymetria (theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces) · th สมมาตรยิ่งยวด (theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces) · ga forshiméadracht (theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces) · hi अतिसममिति (theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces) · ko 초대칭 (theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces) · hu szuperszimmetria (theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces) · ru суперсимме́трия (theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces) · ta மீச்சமச்சீர்மை (theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces) · it supersimmetria (theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces) · ja 超対称性 (theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces) · es supersimetría (theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces) · el υπερσυμμετρία (theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces)