Supersymmetry by Gordon Kane, Perseus Books, £17.95, ISBN 0738202037
Supersymmetry: The quantum theory of fields (volume III) by Steven Weinberg, Cambridge University Press (1999), £32.50, ISBN 0521660009
SOMETHING really is rotten at the heart of the standard model. Tough luck for the one-size-fits-all mock-up of the Universe’s origins and workings. Since the 1970s particle experimenters have dotted the model’s Is and crossed the Ts, their lives enlivened by the odd rumour, soon squashed, of a flaw in the model. You can’t blame particle physicists for being impatient to see supersymmetry confirmed. Their field has had precious few headlines in recent…
