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Ask Ethan: Can you write a beginner’s guide to the Standard Model?

For thousands of years, humanity would wonder just what it was — at a fundamental, elementary level — that made up everything we saw, heard, or otherwise interacted with in the Universe. Ideas ran rampant early on, ranging from the notion of elements to a fundamental single root of everything to tiny building blocks composed of a variety…

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