> The Standard Model has nothing to say on these, it is fundamentally incomplete. I fear we won't answer these questions within my lifetime, sure, we may get ta

> The Standard Model has nothing to say on these, it is fundamentally incomplete. I fear we won't answer these questions within my lifetime, sure, we may get tantalising hints from astronomy, but not direct observation in experiment. One of my coworkers is a trained particle physicist, and he will be the first to say that the standard model is a mess and nobody in the field actually believes it's correct, just that it's what they currently have to work with. He describes it as basically a switch statement depending on the field in question. None of this is meant to denigrate the endeavor, it's just that nuclear physics makes electrodynamics look like child's play.