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> What lies are you talking about? The claims about confirming or ruling out supersymmetry.
by lisper 5y ago
> What lies are you talking about?
The claims about confirming or ruling out supersymmetry.
- kragen 5y agoWell, so far all the results are consistent with supersymmetry, so in that sense it's provided confirmatory evidence. Are you saying that someone promised much stronger confirmatory or falsificatory evidence?
- lisper 5y agoAny results are consistent with supersymmetry because supersymmetry is not a theory, it is a family of theories, entirely analogous to Ptolemaic epicycles. For any set of data you can contrive a supersymmetric theory that fits that data. But the claim that was made for the LHC was that it would either produce evidence in favor of a particular set of supersymmetric theories, or that supersymmetry would be considered falsified. Neither of those things has happened. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96VECuUXbEs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96VECuUXbEs particularly starting at the 6:20 mark (but the whole thing is well worth watching).