31 Jul
2007
31 Jul
'07
5:10 p.m.
(Out of fairness to *the* standard model, the Higgs boson is its only remaining unobserved particle. The other particles being sought at Fermilab and CERN belong to supersymmetric (SUSY) extensions of the standard model. Ironically such an extension while having more particles could nevertheless claim to be more parsimonious than the current standard model as measured by the number of its free parameters, in particular fewer Yukawa constants. Disclaimer: if you knew SUSY like I know SUSY no physics lab would even think of hiring you.)