> If this adds one more trust factor to the standard model, does that mean it'll hold forever? Do you mean the Standard Model? Well, to answer, look at the his

> If this adds one more trust factor to the standard model, does that mean it'll hold forever? Do you mean the Standard Model? Well, to answer, look at the history of scientific theories -- every scientific theory ever put forth has eventually been proven either flat wrong or been shown to be an approximation, without exception. The Standard Model more or less includes General Relativity, and General Relativity conflicts with quantum theories, so there's already a basis for further work. That work is being addressed by (among other things) string / superstring / M theories, unfortunately without any experimental testable predictions yet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-theory