Beyond The Standard Model
Although all experimental evidence confirms the predictions of the Standard Model, many physicists find this model to be unsatisfactory due to its many undetermined parameters, many fundamental particles, and other more theoretical considerations such as the hierarchy problem. There are many speculative theories beyond the Standard Model that attempt to rectify these deficiencies.
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