The title of this thread is the same as the title of my recent paper.
C. Schiller, Testing a conjecture on the origin of the standard model, European Physical Journal Plus 136 (2021) 79.
doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-020-01046-8.
Read it online for free at rdcu.be/cdwSI - the link is provided by SpringerNature.
It is regularly claimed that the standard model is complex, incomplete or even ugly. The strand conjecture argues the exact opposite: all of particle physics is due to tangled strands fluctuating at the Planck scale. A single fundamental process appears to explain the principle of least action, the Dirac equation, the observed interaction spectrum, the observed gauge symmetry groups, the observed elementary particle spectrum, and the fundamental constants (masses, mixing angles, and coupling constants) describing them. The Lagrangian of the standard model arises, without modifications or extensions. Over 100 additional tests and predictions about particle physics beyond the standard model are given. They agree with all experiments. So far, no other approach in the research literature appears to make (almost) any of these predictions. It appears that the explanation of the standard model using tangled strands is consistent, correct, hard to vary, and complete.
For more papers and talk slides, see www.motionmountain.net/research.