On the Bifurcation Structure of Particle Physics (original) (raw)
It is nearly universally accepted that the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics, despite its remarkable predictive power, remains an incomplete framework. Among the many longstanding puzzles confronting SM, its flavor composition, the origin of three generations, the spectrum of particle masses and charges, and the chirality of electroweak interactions continue to resist explanation. In line with our previous investigations, the goal of this exploratory work is to further bridge the gap between the universal behavior of nonlinear dynamics, on the one hand, and the flavor composition and SM chirality, on the other.
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