What Is the Standard Model?

The standard model doesn't cover everything yet. Even the standard model we have today does not describe everything as we'll dig into in a minute. So we should think of it as our current best work in progress description of all the particles that we can't explain so far but it's sort of like we're all building a barn together. Let's all work on the same project at least and try to put the whole thing together into one edifice, he says.