The Substandard Model Of Elementary Particles

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The Substandard Model Of Elementary Particles

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Whoever created this "Substandard Model of Elementary Particles" deserves both a Nobel Prize and psychiatric evaluation. Replacing quarks with generational labels? Brilliant. The "up" quark costs $1B while "bottom" is just $300M – finally explaining why physics departments are always broke. And those force carriers? Glue, photos, and... *checks notes*... hugs? No wonder my experiments fail – I've been using the wrong fundamental forces! The graviton is just Matrix code, and love costs $1.5M? Well, that explains my divorce. My favorite part is dark matter being "under construction" – just like our understanding of it for the past 50 years. Theoretical physicists aren't even pretending anymore.

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