Desperately Seeking Susy

CERN and IES de SAR

It's a new year, and our search for the big answers continues. One reason we may be making great progress toward them in 2015 is that the Large Hadron Collider, closed for two years, will reopen in March. Its mission now, after having found the Higgs boson, has to do with something called supersymmetry, aka Susy. No one knows for sure that this a real phenomenon, physicists just hope it is, as it could help explain a lot of very basic and perplexing things, including why the aforementioned Higgs boson even exists: http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21637340-coming-year-will-be-crunch-time-humanitys-understanding
   What, exactly, is supersymmetry? A Fermilab scientist explains (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CeLRrBAI60