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if you pile up enough of it, even shit can look beautiful.

— Sabine Hossenfelder Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray (2018)

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The logic of arguments from naturalness resembles the attempt to predict the plot of a long-running TV series. If the hero -- here, naturalness --is in a pickle, certainly he will survive, so something must happen to turn around a situation that looks bleak.

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The Standard Model is based on a principle called "gauge symmetry". According to this principle, every particle has a direction in an internal space, much like the needle in a compass, except that the needle doesn't point anywhere you can look.

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