IN 1994, on a warm summer's evening in Erice, in Sicily, in the midst of a pleasantly well-lubricated dinner, two physicists made a wager on the laws of nature. The bet between Kenneth Lane and David Gross concerned supersymmetry, or "Susy" for short, a theory which stipulates that all known fundamental particles have heavier, supersymmetric counterparts called sparticles. When the bet was laid, no sparticles had been spotted. Yet plans for a powerful particle accelerator called the Large Hadron...
IN 1994, on a warm summer's evening in Erice, in Sicily, in the midst of a pleasantly well-lubricated dinner, two physicists made a wager on the laws of nature. The bet between Kenneth Lane and David Gross concerned supersymmetry, or "Susy" for short, a theory which stipulates that all known fundamental particles have heavier, supersymmetric counterparts called sparticles. When the bet was laid, no sparticles had been spotted. Yet plans for a powerful particle accelerator called the Large Hadron...
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