The supersymmetric bet

Particle physicists playfully take sides over whether the Large Hadron Collider is likely to discover evidence of Supersymmetry. Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have exactly two years to find evidence of new particles. Cognac is on the line. In July 2000, physicists at the Triangle-2000 meeting in Copenhagen—so called because it once rotated between three cities in Europe—passed a document around the conference room inviting attendees to predict whether, in the next 10 years, experim...