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? asked in Science & MathematicsPhysics · 6 years ago

What are the holes in the Standard Model?

I recently watched a documentary on the LHC and one of the physicists mentioned that some of the solutions to the Standard Model are so absurd that they know they have to be missing something big. Given some of the absurdities that we know to be true from quantum physics I'm curious what these 'absurd' solutions in the standard model are, but I've not been able to find anything about them.

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  • 6 years ago
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    The big missing thing is gravity. And incorporating gravity directly leads to equations with infinity as a solution. This is what the presenter means by absurd.

    The other things in QM are weird, but work. But infinities in a physical theory mean it isn't working.

    The other big things that are missing are Dark matter (which may be a type of particle that we haven't yet discovered), Dark energy (About which we know practically nothing, Supersymmetric particles. (a nice neat theory, would be even better if it were true). and M-theory. (the idea that the fundamental building blocks are no point-like particles, but 1 dimensional vibrating "strings" and "membranes.

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    6 years ago

    Yeah, infinity as a solution in physical reality is certainly absurd. My curiosity is satisfied. Thank you.

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