Five mysteries the Standard Model can’t explain

Symmetry ^ | 18 Oct, 2018 | Oscar Miyamoto Gomez

[MtnClimber]

Our best model of particle physics explains only about 5 percent of the universe.

The Standard Model is a thing of beauty. It is the most rigorous theory of particle physics, incredibly precise and accurate in its predictions. It mathematically lays out the 17 building blocks of nature: six quarks, six leptons, four force-carrier particles, and the Higgs boson. These are ruled by the electromagnetic, weak and strong forces.

“As for the question ‘What are we?’ the Standard Model has the answer,” says Saúl Ramos, a researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). “It tells us that every object in the universe is not independent, and that every particle is there for a reason.”

its great predictive power, however, the Standard Model fails to answer five crucial questions, which is why particle physicists know their work is far from done.

1. Why do neutrinos have mass? Three of the Standard Model’s particles are different types of neutrinos. The Standard Model predicts that, like photons, neutrinos should have no mass. However, scientists have found that the three neutrinos oscillate, or transform into one another, as they move. This feat is only possible because neutrinos are not massless after all.

[MtnClimber]

There is so much we do not know.

[I want the USA back]

The most fundamental questions remain unanswered. Keep trying.

[DannyTN]

This thread needs a picture of a model. This one might be non-standard. I'm not sure.

[MeganC]

“Our best model of particle physics explains only about 5 percent of the universe.”

This is false because we haven’t yet quantified what constitutes 100% of the universe.

[HangnJudge]

The Standard Model has just a little bitty problem
It predicts that the Universe as we know it
should not exist

[Red Badger]

It mathematically lays out the 17 building blocks of nature: six quarks, six leptons, four force-carrier particles, and the Higgs boson. ......

and a partridge in a pear tree..................

[yesthatjallen]

"Dark Matter".

Everything can be explained with "Dark Matter".

[airborne]

Bookmark

[C210N]

This might be a bit racist, but someone has to say it...

Dark Mass Matter(s)

[RinaseaofDs]

She looks like an NPC bot. Strange.

[JoeFromSidney]

As a physicist, it's nice to know we won't be out of jobs soon. There's still a lot to be discovered.

[teeman8r]

Higgs Boson?! he owes me money!

[sparklite2]

*Shudder*

That pose looks like her neck was broken and her head reattached. Or a larger head photo-shopped onto a normal neck.

[Bob434]

who knows if we infact know what we think we don’t know?- We can’t know for sure-

[Red Badger]

No, no, no, that was Hogg’s Bison..................

[UCANSEE2]

Dark Matter causes Global Warming.

[Patriot777]

How do you insert a picture into a reply post? Someone told me quite awhile ago but it’s slipped my mind...quite like a banana peel but mostly like watching semi-trucks navigating icy roads.
;-)

[Swordmaker]

The FIVE things the standard gravity driven Universe model of the Universe can't explain is just the beginning, but every one of those five and a lot more are easily explicable in the Electric Universe Mode.l —Electric Universe PING!

The gravity driven standard model cannot rationally explain this celestial object:

Clear Example of a Birkeland Current
"Z" Pinch with Symmetrical Plasmids
seen in Hubble Telescope View of
The Twin Jet Nebula
ELECTRIC UNIVERSE PING!

If you want on or off the Electric Universe Ping List, Freepmail me.

[17th Miss Regt]

Neutrinos have mass because they are all Catholic.