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Will CERN's Large Hadron Collider discover supersymmetry by Dec 31, 2010?
Background: Supersymmetry is an idea in particle physics which says that every elementary particle of nature has a high-energy 'superpartner'. No particle accelerator yet built has been powerful enough to detect these extra particles, but physicists hope the LHC might have what it takes. Supersymmetry could lead to a unified view of the forces of nature and solve the 'dark matter' problem - why 20 percent of the mass of the universe seems to be invisible. For more, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersymmetry
Settlement details:Settled by an announcement from CERN, or by publication of a detection result in a reputable scientific journal.
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