@Science_George@mastodon.world
2026-07-04 14:02 UTC
That was the day that the Standard Model of particle physics was completed . . . well, sort of, maybe.
What I mean is, it was the completion of everything that *had* to be found - at a minimum - that we knew to look for, but that doesn't account for any unknown unknowns.
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@Science_George@mastodon.world 2026-07-04 14:02
For example, the Higgs boson might be unique - in which case then we have found *it* - but things might instead turn out where the Higgs that was discovered is only one example of a variety of mass-giving particles - in which case then there'll be more searching left to do. 3/