> makes it seem that the standard model is pretty flexible It's simply not true that these 500 papers are all "the standard model" and that can be verified by

> makes it seem that the standard model is pretty flexible It's simply not true that these 500 papers are all "the standard model" and that can be verified by reading the actual papers. E.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.04027 https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.04027 "Strongly interacting dynamics and the search for new physics at the LHC" New physics != the standard model I don't know the origin of that "500 papers" list (it seems somebody simply made a jsfiddle out of who knows which list and smuggled that in Wikipedia) but they can't be interpreted as "all the standard model."