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24 - Breaking Down the Standard Model

Why This Universe?

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The Problems With the Standard Model

The standard model has 19 separate free parameters. So there are 10 different particle masses that we can't predict. There's no explanation in the standard model for how neutrinos get mass. We know that our universe expanded very rapidly in an inflationary period after the Big Bang. And probably most importantly, the force of gravity is entirely left out of the standard model.

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