Ways I Am Like the Standard Model

davidsevera:

• Clearly flawed, but with no obvious path to improvement
• Can go from a top to a bottom under the right circumstances
• I too have a problem with hierarchy
• Influenced by Richard Feynman
• Too weird to be widely understood
• If you froze my body and shattered it down the middle that would arguably be symmetry breaking
  
• Lots of self-coupling
• Many of my interactions are weak
• Incompatible with gravity (I fell out of bed the other day)
  
• Will break down under extreme conditions
• All of my friends describe me as a gauge quantum field theory containing the internal symmetries of the unitary product group SU(3) × SU(2) × U(1)

(via light-rook)