Wolchover/Quanta: A Deepening Crisis Forces Physicists to Rethink Structure of Nature’s Laws

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A Deepening Crisis Forces Physicists to Rethink Structure of Nature’s Laws
Natalie Wolchover
1 March 2022
Quanta Magazine

For three decades, researchers hunted in vain for new elementary particles that would have explained why nature looks the way it does. As physicists confront that failure, they’re reexamining a longstanding assumption: that big stuff consists of smaller stuff.