Is Supersymmetry Dead? - with Dan Hooper

Supersymmetry has long been one of the most popular theories in quantum physics - but how useful is it to us now?
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In this short clip from his talk 'What Happened At The Beginning Of Time?', Dan Hooper explains the theory of supersymmetry and its waning popularity today.
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Dan Hooper is Senior Scientist and the Head of the Theoretical Astrophysics Group at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. He is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago. Previously, he was the David Schramm Fellow at Fermilab, and a postdoc at the University of Oxford. In 2003, he completed his PhD in physics at the University of Wisconsin.

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