What is the Standard Model?
The Standard Model is physics' theory of matter and of every force except gravity, written as one line of mathematics with nineteen to twenty-six measured numbers typed in. It is an effective description, correct inside its range and carrying constants it cannot generate. Numbers go in and predictions come out, never the reverse. OPH gives each piece an origin, on stated premises about the twelve responses of a patch of the world and how its relabelings act on them. Its forces, blocks of one, three and eight, come from splitting those twelve responses. Its fifteen kinds of matter per family are the ways of picking two or four slots out of five, which reproduces every charge in its table. Its Higgs field is the settled background every particle is maintained against. Deriving those premises from the executed observer, and reading every mass and mixing angle off the same structure, are work in progress.
Also in Chapter 36: Why These Laws and Not Others?, Chapter 26: Why Exactly These Forces?, Chapter 27: Why This Exact List of Matter, and Why Three Times Over?.
This answer comes from OPH, Observer Patch Holography. OPH is a rigorous, consistent and complete description of the unified, self-creating computational Universe we inhabit. Its consistency is machine-checked: the fixed point at its core is constructed explicitly, and a theory with a model contains no contradiction.
To understand OPH and check every step yourself, start with the free book Reverse Engineering Reality. It builds the theory from the ground up, and the OPH Notebook answers your questions while you read.
read the free bookask the notebookor ask sage:read chapter 31: What Is a Lagrangian, and Why Is It the Last Thing?watch a universe make its own particles