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Loading contentThe theory describing the known elementary particles and three of the four fundamental forces.
The Standard Model classifies all known elementary particles and describes the electromagnetic, weak, and strong forces. In cosmology it sets the physics of the hot early Universe — but it does not include gravity, and its particles account for only the 5% of the Universe that is ordinary matter.
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