Without SUSY, there is nothing like a chiral symmetry to protect scala — Supersymmetry

"Edward Witten as quoted by Hirosi Ooguri in (p. 483)"

"The mathematical consistency of string theory depends crucially on supersymmetry, and it is very hard to find consistent solutions (quantum vacua) that do not preserve at least a portion of this supersymmetry. This prediction of string theory differs from the other two (general relativity and gauge theories) in that it really is a prediction. It is a generic feature of string theory that has not yet been discovered experimentally."

"The concept of naturalness is usually cited as the underlying motivation for supersymmetry. We will challenge that concept, and in any case need to point out that there is nothing natural about the development of the theory itself. Its main success is its agility in dodging the facts. The dubious explanation of the convergence of the three scaling coupling constants into a single point can not be taken seriously. It is just another fit, using some of the many free parameters."

"Shortly after the development of four-dimensional globally supersymmetric field theories, Zumino (1975) pointed out that supersymmetry in these theories would, if unbroken, imply a vanishing vacuum energy."

"The unification of forces, even if it were perfected, would leave us with two great kingdoms of particles, still not unified. Technically, these are the fermion and boson kingdoms. More poetically, we may call them the kingdoms of substance (fermions) and force (bosons). By postulating that the fundamental equations enjoy the property of supersymmetry, we heal the division of particles into separate kingdoms. Supersymmetry can be approached from several different angles, but perhaps the most appealing is to consider it as an expansion of space-time, to include quantum dimensions. The defining characteristic of quantum dimensions is that they are represented by coordinates that are Grassmann numbers (i.e., anticommuting numbers) rather than real numbers. Supersymmetry posits that the fundamental laws of physics remain invariant transformations that correspond to uniform motion in the quantum dimensions. Thus supersymmetry extends Galileo/Lorentz invariance."

"In the absence of a canonical model for why and how supersymmetry breaking occurs, the predicted consequences of supersymmetry are not sharply defined."