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33 - Our Love Affair With Supersymmetry

Why This Universe?

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What Is Supersymmetry?

supersymmetry is an idea or a theory that relates the particles we call bosons to fermions. Fermions are kind of the particles we think of as matter, particles like electrons and quarks and neutrinos. And bosons are the particles we usually think of as force carriers. The reason the names are so weird is just because they're named after two guys.

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