Daniel Whiteson

In order for these numbers to cancel out, the masses have to be basically equal.

So supersymmetry could still be the law of the land.

It could be the way the universe works.

But it's really hard for it to actually solve the problem it was created to solve anymore.

Right.

And it's also the target of a lot of, I think, not well-informed criticism.

Because it was a fun playground for people, people developed whole research programs exploring supersymmetry.

And certainly there were a few guys out there making broad claims that they shouldn't have made and clickbait, whatever.

We're definitely going to discover it.

I guarantee it or whatever.

But that's not the mainstream view.

Everybody always knew, hey, this is an idea.

There were always other ideas, other possible explanations for the hierarchy model.

And the experimentalists certainly never believed we were definitely going to discover it.

We thought, hey, this is one thing we should look for.

We should also look for the other things and the other things.

And we should be open to new things we didn't expect, right?

It's a broad field, lots of people investigating stuff.

Sure.

So supersymmetry these days is a bit of a butt of the joke.