Hey, Guys...

It's me again, "Article Boy," informing you of another interesting read: A line on string theory.

This one says that the LHC may help find the "stau" particle, with a lifetime of a minute or so, that could give us the first experimental confirmation of String Theory.

I find this intriguing.  Any thoughts?

- Mike Petersen

I'm not entirely sure what's going to come out of the LHC. I think people will be sad if it ends up just being top quark decay products and nothing else.

Wouldn't such a long particle lifetime be an issue? At the speeds they're going to be smashing things together, wouldn't such a particle end up either absorbed somewhere or partway to Venus?

There's a lot of lines on string theory. I don't know if there are any particular boundaries on how heavy a 'supersymmetric partner' of a particle is supposed to be, save for the lower "we haven't seen it yet" one.

Personally, I hope they discover something, whatever that may happen to be. Particle physics is neat and I don't want its heyday to be over :)