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Actually, physicists are desperate for an upset that will disprove the standard model. The standard model is, in many ways, too good, in the sense that it predi
by wyager 10y ago
Actually, physicists are desperate for an upset that will disprove the standard model. The standard model is, in many ways, too good, in the sense that it predicts most (but certainly not all) measurable phenomena to very high accuracy, but is not a complete theory. So we're looking for examples that break the standard model so we can figure out how to expand it to be complete, but we're having trouble finding useful mispredictions by the standard model. A few areas where the standard model is deficient: dark matter, matter/antimatter asymmetry, hierarchy problem.