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What do you mean? It predicted the Top and Charm quarks, the W and Z bosons (and their masses), and many other phenomena.

We know the Standard Model isn't a complete theory or a "grand unified theory" though because there are too many empirically determined constants in it, and because it doesn't adequately explain all known particle physics.



How were the masses of the W and Z bosons predicted by the Standard Model? And why didn't that work, to predict where to find the Higgs?




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