What is the Standard Model?

Catastrophe

"Science begets knowledge, opinion ignorance.
The Standard Model is considered by physicists, such as Glenn Starkman at Case Western Reserve University, as one of the most successful scientific theories(opens in new tab) of all time, but on the flip-side, scientists have also recognized that it is incomplete, in the same way that Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation derived from his laws of motion, while remarkably successful, was not the whole picture and required Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity to fill in the missing gaps.

Lack of a base in the underlying assumptions? Like Newton --> Einstein?

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