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AMA | October 2021

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Is the Standard Model of Particle Physics a Good Analogue?

physics has shared underlying theories and methodologies, right? The standard model of particle physics underlies all the different areas of physics. We do not have that underlying theory of everything, because we have general relativity and quanta mechanics that are incompatible with each other. It might turn out that the best description of the world is a patchwork quilt where the patches overlap with each other but they can't be compatible in regions where they should both be true.

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