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Originally Posted by Shiraz
thanks Steven.
Agree, nothing can ever be absolutely excluded by a process of observation, but scientific theories either flourish with success - or sink under the weight of nails in the coffin as they accrue failures in matching with observations.
My (limited) understanding is that the current research showed that the SM was capable of fully describing the observed behaviour of the bottom quark. This is not proof that supersymmetry does not exist, but rather that it is not necessary in this case. This does not rule out physics beyond the SM, but by Occam, it seems to me to be one (smallish?) nail in the coffin.
Which I guess means that we are no nearer to understanding what that annoyingly elusive dark stuff might be....
regards ray
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Hello Ray,
On a different tack, the various flavoured neutrinos have
one foot outside the SM.
The SM can't explain why neutrinos oscillate between flavours.
Being non baryonic particles as is most theorized dark matter, we have some insight into dark matter even though neutrinos are unlikely candidates.
Regards
Steven