The author uses the well known Koide mass formula, which predicted the correct mass for the Tau lepton( which interact via the weak force)....a very heavy cousin to the electron, and muon, before it was actually found. Though his technique is admittedly a postdiction of lepton masses, it is extended to the hadrons (which interact via the strong force) and gives excellent mass fits to their excitations( which show as resonances, or frantic activity in a particle detector, at accelerator labs). He gives mass fits to 39 of 137 hadrons. Supersymmetry does not predict any new particle that has been seen.
He states that this is all simple....that's only true for a PhD in particle physics. This is rigorous, but reminds one of the success of Rydberg, in predicting spectral lines using wavenumbers before Bohr tied them all together. Interesting, and together with the paper about symmetry, observables last week, about as high as I can read. pete


see:http://www.brannenworks.com/koidehadrons.pdf

Rydberg, see:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rydberg_formula

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A third rate theory forbids.
A second rate theory explains after the fact.
A first rate theory predicts.
A. Lomonosov