supersymmetry
A theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces and which proposes a…A theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces and which proposes a physical symmetry between bosons and fermions.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable, usually)A theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces and which proposes a physical symmetry between bosons and fermions.
Supersymmetrie
суперсимме́трияsupersimmétrija
(physics) a theory that tries to link the four fundamental forces
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Origin
From super- + symmetry. In the modern physics sense, coined by Pakistani physicist Abdus SFrom super- + symmetry. In the modern physics sense, coined by Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam and American physicist John Strathdee in 1974 as super-symmetry, in a paper in Physics Letters B as a simplification of super-gauge symmetry used by Julius Wess and Bruno Zumino.
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Forms
plural: supersymmetries| Singular | supersymmetry |
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uncountable
Synonyms
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