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supersymmetry

The English word “supersymmetry” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

  1. A theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces and which proposes a physical symmetry between bosons and fermions.

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.

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