A Symmetry theory that relates bosons and fermions is known as supersymmetry.







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Remember: All elementary particles are fermions or bosons

Bosons such as the photon, W, Z, and gluon may have superpartners called charginos, neutralinos, and gluino. Fermions, such as leptons and quarks may have superpartners that some people call sleptons and squarks.

You may enjoy these links:

  1. New Scientist Youtube cartoon on supersymmetry
  2. The Elegant Universe at Nova
  3. "Proposition Player" by Matthew Ritchie
  4. Advanced physics, accelerated for mass consumption
  5. Squarks and Photinos at CERN
  6. Particle Adventure
  7. NewScientist's Quantum World
  8. What is the World Made of? The Naming of Quarks
  9. Supersymmetry: Squarks, Photinos, and the Unveiling of the Ultimate Laws of Nature
  10. The Standard Model of particle physics
  11. A theory of everything
  12. David Gross, David Politzer and Frank Wilczek
  13. Symmetry Breaking - A symmetry can be exact, approximate, or broken. Exact means unconditionally valid; approximate means valid under certain conditions; broken can mean different things, depending on the object considered and its context.
  14. What's all this E8 stuff about then? Part 1, Part2: What does symmetry have to do with physics? andIsospin, the third part of "A Neighborhood of Infinity" blog on E8.
  15. Supersymmetry From the Top Down
  16. Not Even Wrong aporetically blogs about quarks, strings and other such things.
  17. *My favorite hyperlink ... and, I hope that you will agree: To hear Feynman speak is the most pleasurable of things. Click here to hear the first of 5 wonderful links.
By the way, If you pass a couple squarks on the sidewalk and want to know what's happening, it's entirely appropriate to ask, "sup squarks". :)