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Let's be honest here... the Standard Model was never going to last. There's only so much you can discover when you're
1. stuck in a moment of time (if we exist as a species for a few million years, it's still 0.000000000000000000001% of the life of the universe)
2. too big to see the small stuff, to small to understand the big stuff (the scale from the planck length to humans is bigger than the scale from humans to the entire observable universe)
3. can't intuitively see most of the electromagnetic spectrum (visible light is an incredibly small portion)
4. still can't explain literally 95% of the universe (68% + 27%).. we do so by calling it Dark Energy and Dark Matter.
5. Very hard to describe the house you're living in when you're stuck in the basement. How many rooms, what shape, where does it end, what's it made of, what does it look like from the outside. You need outside observation.
I mean let's be honest - we're always going to be discovering New Things, and that's cool. Any model anyone comes up with in the next thousand years will still be limited by our sheer insignificance in the scale of the universe and that model will always be changing. We will never have a Theory of Everything.
With all of that said, I still think this is an awesome discovery. This is what science is all about.... Finding out what we don't know and trying to fill the gaps.
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