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Aaron McGowan, Principal Lecturer in Physics and Astronomy, Rochester Institute of Technology

INSANE: 2021 a year physicists asked what lies beyond the standard model - The Real Truth

Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe, like the ATLAS calorimeter seen here, are providing more accurate measurements of fundamental particles. Maximilien Brice, CC BY

If you ask a physicist like me to explain how the world works, my lazy answer might be: “It follows the Standard Model.”

The Standard Model explains the fundamental physics of how the universe works. It has endured over 50 trips around the Sun despite experimental physicists constantly probing for cracks in the model’s foundations.

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