What is the Standard Model?

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The Standard Model of Physics is the theory of particles, fields and the fundamental forces that govern them.

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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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[murgatroyd]

The Standard Model of Physics is the theory of particles, fields and the fundamental forces that govern them.

What is the Standard Model? : Read more

This would unify fermions with bosons, since the integer-spin fermions would have half-integer-spin super-partners, and the half-integer-spin bosons would have integer-spin super-partners.

Say what?