supersymmetry
su·per·sym·metry
noun
1.
(physics) a theory that tries to link the four fundamental forces
- “according to supersymmetry each force emerged separately during the big bang”
Origin
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.
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