I Don't Want My Friends to Go Out or Come Back Anymore

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Many people who liked super symmetry, especially as an explanation for the hierarchy problem, did expect to have discovered super symmetry by now. And what you're saying is, there's still sensible reasons to think that if we keep looking, we might find it. But i don't want my friends to go out and work so hard to perfor in a pursuit which is not, by no means g or probably doesn't even have high probability of success. An bu a, but i do think, i do think this is a possibility. A ia yoama o just leap its it's, well, i know that super symmetri is the most popular, probably a framework for going beyond

Modern particle physics is a victim of its own success. We have extremely good theories — so good that it’s hard to know exactly how to move beyond them, since they agree with all the experiments. Yet, there are strong indications from theoretical considerations and cosmological data that we need to do better. But the leading contenders, especially supersymmetry, haven’t yet shown up in our experiments, leading some to wonder whether anthropic selection is a better answer. Michael Dine gives us an expert’s survey of the current situation, with pointers to what might come next.

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Michael Dine received his Ph.D. in physics from Yale University. He is Distinguished Professor of Physics at the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz. Among his awards are fellowships from the Sloan Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, American Physical Society, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as the Sakurai Prize for theoretical particle physics. His new book is This Way to the Universe: A Theoretical Physicist’s Journey to the Edge of Reality.

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