New Season Update from the CERN particle physics laboratory · 10:50pm Apr 5th, 2015
“Isn't this exciting? Are you excited? 'Cause I'm excited. It's been such a long time we've had to wait for this, and now this weekend it's finally restarting after a long break and we can look forward to so much exciting new cool stuff. I've never been so excited, well, except for the time that I...”
Images from LHC season 2
Pinkie Pie stared gleefully at the screen showing the data transmitted live from the CERN particle physics laboratory in Geneva.
“Pinkie,” said Twilight. “They're just starting to circulate the beams and guide them through the 27km tunnels. It will be another month or so until they reach full energy and are ready to collide them at full energy to make new particles.”
“And Large Hadron Collider Season 2 will reach twice the energy! Who can guess what exciting New Physics they will find first? Will we see the first sign of dark matter, or supersymmetric particles?”
“What are they?” asked Rainbow Dash.
“Every particle in the Standard Model of Particle Physics is hypothesized to have a supersymmetric sister particle,” explained Pinkie. “As reflected in the supersymmetric mirror. As well as electrons, muons and quarks, we have selectrons, smuons and squarks. As well as photons, gluons and the Higgs, there could be photinos, gluinos and higgsinos. There’s a full set of new particles to look for!”
“If they're a mirror image of the particles we know, why haven’t we seen them before?” asked Rainbow.
“Duh! It's a broken mirror! They’re much heavier and harder to see than ordinary particles.”
“But season one didn't see any of them,” said Twilight. “After they found the Higgs Boson, they didn't see any convincing sign of New Physics. Many these particles don't exist after all.”
“Or maybe they're just really good at hiding! Or it could be something else like Universal Extra Dimensions or Technicolor particles. Or it could be something completely different—that would be really awesome—if we find something totally new which no one ever expected!”
“Or maybe we won’t see anything new at all.”
“But there must be something new out there. There are too many unanswered questions: What makes up most of the mass in the Universe? What exactly happened after the big bang? Where did all the antimatter go? We need to find the answers!”
And good to see that season 5 of Friendship is Magic got off to an equally good start.
I heard that supersymmetrical particles were supposed to be the finale of season 1, but they had to use the Gala episode instead.
Also, I have always appreciated that there exist hypothetical particles called "smuons." Yes, it's short for super-muon, but I dare you to say "smuon" and not smile.
I hope we find out we're all projections and/or simulations.
Just like the ponies!
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Since it'd penetrate matter deeper than even a muon due to its theoretically high mass, I guess you could say that "You can't stop the smuon."
I still say we aint missing antimatter, what we are missing is how the antimatter ended up as matter instead of antimatter.
If the difference in ratio is only a few parts per million, then there would be millions of times the apparent amount of matter in rest mass as gammas, which would make mr universe very fat and very compact. just one more waffer thin mint, and its the same problem all over again.
what they really need to do is build SLAC accross the beam line, or NIF, or some other pure energy emmiter. Magnetic Monopoles are stupidly high energy, not far below planck masses.
the reason for supersymetry, is taking the whole family, and rotatin it around an extra axis, from classical quaternion, to l-quaternion, in octonion space. Theres been a nice collection of cohesive research published in octonion space, two of particular intrest showing excelent relationships between octonion general relativity and quantum mechanics on one side, and one dimentional simplified quantum mechanics and general relativity on the other side, from specialists in alternate opposing camps.
It also helps that theres several experiemnts showing the possibility that gravity is a measure of how fractally folded spacetime is on a 4th spacial dimention, and that the extended 240 paritcles of supersymetry fit in with E8 theory, which at its base has an increadibly simple single generator. which just happens to be used for trellis modulation in proposed military communication. So that could be a bit tricky to publish and implement commercially.
Wierd how the E8 generator has a radius 2. Like the Mandelbrot or Mandelbulb?
So many things to eagerly wait for in the next 7 GeV range of energies.