supersymmetry

English

From super- +‎ symmetry.

supersymmetry (usually uncountable, plural supersymmetries)

(physics) A theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces and which proposes a physical symmetry between bosons and fermions.
- 2013 November 22, Alok Jha, “Stephen Hawking: physics would be 'more interesting' if Higgs boson hadn't been found”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 24, page 32:
  Supersymmetry is the concept that known particles – such as electrons, quarks and photons – have a heavier and as-yet-undetected "superpartner".

theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces

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