Frank Wilczek
Editor: Henyee Translations
The discovery of the pentaquark was a piece of exciting news for the entire theoretical physics community.
However, Frank Wilczek was not too happy.
Of course, it was not because of the experiment, it was because of a six-year-old bet.
Six years ago, at the physics conference in the Azores, he made a bet with a gentleman named Garrett Lisi.
Mr. Lisi stood up and disrupted Frank's talk about the standard model while insisting that supersymmetric particles simply did not exist, because one could not find supersymmetric particles at all. Mr. Frank naturally insisted on maintaining the theory. He predicted that the Hadron Collider (LHC) would detect supersymmetric particles within 6 years!
They made the bet in front of everyone.
The arbitrator was the host of the conference, Mr. Max Sigma Mark, a professor at MIT.
The bet was $1000 USD.