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The standard model and particle physics has become basically a religion for some scientists.

> “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.”

Because this makes no sense unless you're operating under some sort of belief system.




Except that all those physicists will tell you that they know that the Standard Model is incomplete, and therefore it is in some sense wrong. Religious people won't tell you that about their holy books.


History says otherwise that that’s always the case.




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