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My name is Christopher Battle and I've recently completed my M.Sc. in Theoretical Physics at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. I'm from Texas, and studied at the University of Texas at Austin, where I double-majored and received B.Sc.'s in Physics and Mathematics. I have done some short story writing in the past, and have had works published in the Smokelong Quarterly, Thieves Jargon, edificeWRECKED, and Outsider Ink,

Sciences > Physics Is the Standard Model the best model of our physical world?

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The Standard Model is the best model so far for characterizing the fundamental constituents of our physical world, with the following caveats: - It is admittedly incomplete, as it does not contain gravity. Thus it alone can't fully describe our physical world. - In its current formulation, or at least the formulation appearing in most text books, it assumes neutrinos have no mass. Mass oscillation experiments such as the Super-K experiment in Japan and the MINOS experiment in the U.S. have shown that neutrinos oscillate between different flavors (i.e. different types), which implies that t...

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