Sinking & Swimming in SUSY

For quite some time I’ve been thinking of blogging along as I try to learn Supersymmetry and related stuff, but it’s taken quite a few pushes from several friends to overcome the initial inertia barrier. Today is as auspicious a day as any, so let me start. After some thought, I’ve decided that I’ll let my posts slant more to the side of popular science with lesser equationy stuff, mainly for the following reasons:

1. Anyway have to work out most of the equations as part of my project, so posting at a more expository level here, will complement that by forcing me to think up of why certain things work the way they do, how to better look at things, & most importantly, ensure that I actually understand what I’m doing.

2. I’m lazy, and it’s pain to typeset equations in HTML, (made more horrible by wordpress not supporting MATHML)

So, here’s hoping I’ll start soon tomorrow!

Thus it Begins

Science (and maybe life) is like a game of Go. Each move is not an isolated local happening but a part of the greater pattern, a pattern which is slowly taking us towards tengen, The Origin of the Heaven.What does that have to do with this blog you ask? Well, nothing much, except that what may seem to you to be a bunch of unrelated nonsensical posts to you, dear reader, are in fact part of an elaborate complex pattern weaving, a rich tapestry which only they who have acheived Satori can perceive.

[Republished from blogspot]