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Murray Gell-Mann - Crucial tests for string theory (154/200)

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Channel: Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People · 2016 · Science & Technology

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New York-born physicist Murray Gell-Mann (1929-2019) was a theoretical physicist. His considerable contributions to physics include the theory of quantum chromodynamics. He was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles. [Listener: Geoffrey West; date recorded: 1997]

TRANSCRIPT: The most obvious test is to see if the supergap is relatively small and the superpartners of the non-particles appear in experiments. I wouldn't be at all surprised if they do. It's a pity that we lost the accelerator in Texas. Terrible pity. But if the one at CERN is built it will have, well, less energy and probably less intensity, but might be sufficient, depending on the supergap, to find a superpart... at least... at least one superpartner of a known particle.

[GW] Do… do you see… when… when you think of supersymmetry do you think of it as intimately connected to string theory? That is...

Well, you could argue, as some people do, that even if you found supersymmetry—broken supersymmetry to be correct--it would still not prove superstring theory. That's certainly true. You could conceivably, logically have supersymmetry without superstring theory.

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