Why is supersymmetry preferred to solve the mass hierarchy problem?

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what is mass hierarchy problem.i have some idea of solving this ,i can do lot of mathematics but i want to understand fine tuning,and i want why supersymmetry is preferred to solve mass hierarchy problem
 

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The mass hierarchy problem asks one simple question: Why are the masses of ordinary particles almost negligible compared to the Planck mass? I don't know the answer
 
meteor said:
... Why are the masses of ordinary particles almost negligible compared to the Planck mass? ...

Frank Wilczek had a series of 3 articles in "Physics Today" around 2001
that dealt with that
(only in a speculative way
because it is an unsolved problem
but as he is a majorleague theorist with very broad clear vision
it can still be enlightening to read his opinions
you can learn something although the answer is not known)

I think you can find it by googling Wilczek and the title
"Scaling Mount Planck"

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Shakeel, maybe you can tell me something about the mass h. problem.
You may already have made some progress.
Wilczek poses the question of why the Planck mass is a big number (13 quintillion, 13 x 1018) times the proton mass

or why the proton mass is so small in natural units---- 1/(13 quintillion) of the Planck mass.

and he tries to conjecture some explanation for this, but I think without
presuming supersymmetry

do you have some idea of how people now explain this?
 
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