Eighteen Key Numbers in the Standard Model of Fundamental Particles
How It's Used
“If fewer physicists were tied to strings might some of the enduring mysteries of the universe be solved? Might we know why there is more matter than antimatter? Why the proton's mass is 1,836 times the electron's? Why the 18 key numbers in the standard model of fundamental particles have the values they do?”
—Sharon Begley, “Has String Theory Tied Up Better Ideas in Field of Physics?” The Wall Street Journal, June 23, 2006, p. B1.
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