About a dozen of years ago, at a Great Lakes Conference dinner at Northwestern I asked Witten what parts of high energy physics he thinks will be confirmed experimentally in our lifetime. Super-symmetry was one of the first things he mentioned. Now comes this news from the Large Hadron Collider casting some doubt on the supersymmetry premise.
BBC News - Popular physics theory running out of hiding places
A word of caution though. About a year ago people thought that the Large Hadron Collider detected a particle traveling faster than the speed of light.
News - Popular physics theory running out of hiding places
More about this SUSY injury at the Not Even Wrong blog.
Hope to add bits of mathematics or mathematical news I find interesting.
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