1123581321 Posted August 6, 2010 Share Posted August 6, 2010 Hi, I was wondering if anti-matter and supersymmetry come from the same thing or are related at all, because its seems they are both about opposite particles of our ordinary ones ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajb Posted August 6, 2010 Share Posted August 6, 2010 Not the same, but very similar. Anti-particles arise because of the Poincare invariance of the theory. Sparticles arise because of the Super-Poincare invariance of the theory. (Which is an extension of the Poincare.) This is all do to with representation theory of (super)groups. A little more about representations of the Lorentz group (which is "Poincare minus affine transformations") can be found here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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