Since I was old enough to read about particle physics, I’ve been reading about how one possible set of solutions to explain why we have the particles we have in our universe would require the existence of a massive zoo of particles that that bring the population of integer spin bosons and ½ integer spin fermions into symmetry. Quarks would be paired with squarks, neutrinos with sneutrinos, gluons with gluinos, w bosons with winos, and b bosons with binos. It is all a bit ridiculous. And for as long as I’ve been old enough to be reading about particle physics, folks have been predicting that...
