Ideally, physicists would prefer a single entity … All of the known particles would arise from this fundamental entity behaving in different ways, like different notes played on a bugle.
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View All Authors View Sources[Special relativity] was the beginning of a fundamental shift of philosophy in science, from asking questions of what is to asking what can be known.
— Robert Oerter (2006)
The Theory of Almost Everything: The Standard Model, the Unsung Triumph of Modern Physics
p. 40
p. 40
With the quark model in hand, the entire subatomic zoo suddenly started to make sense.
— Robert Oerter (2006)
The Theory of Almost Everything: The Standard Model, the Unsung Triumph of Modern Physics
p. 166
p. 166