Supersymmetry

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The only inclination for super symmetry is a combination of graph finagling and a mistaken idea that it would be nice for things to be symmetric.

As we can see from CP violation, our idea of symmetry might very well be a flawed concept.

For SUSY, every testable prediction at CERN (and the lower energy collider institutions) has come up null (i.e. we don't see anything at all) and there appears to be mounting evidence there is "just one" Higgs boson. Yet SUSY proponents, like their String Theory brethren, seem more than happy to whip up yet another version -- after a while it strikes me as moving the proverbial goal posts.

Also, why the hell does every time I look into SUSY, it seems that Ned Flanders came up with the names? Neutralinos? Charginos? Woof.

I wouldn't go so far as a flawed idea to have things symmetric. There is conservations laws in physics that are directly related to symmetries. Of course, CP violations is a counter example. You maybe right in the end, but we need a solution to the hierarchy problem. SUSY and technicolor are good starting points to solve the problem.

Plus, I don't blame the theorist for refining their theories when we get new data. That is exactly what they're suppose to do. Until their model is completely ruled out, or (more frequently) run out of funding, they won't give up on it.