since all subatomic particles are either fermions or bosons, a supersymmetric theory has the potential of unifying all known subatomic particles into one simple symmetry. We now have a symmetry large enough to include the entire universe. Think of a snowflake. Let each of the six prongs of the snowflake represent a subatomic particle, with every other prong being a boson, and the one that follows being a fermion. The beauty of this “super snowflake” is that when we rotate it, it remains the same. In this way, the super snowflake unifies all the particles and their sparticles. So if we were to
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