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  "abstract": "The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics represents the most precise and empirically successful framework devised for describing fundamental particles and their interactions. This rigorous empirical success is intrinsically coupled with severe, formally demonstrable theoretical deficiencies that invalidate its claim to be a complete description of physical reality. This scholarly deconstruction undertakes a meticulous audit of the SM’s architecture, revealing that its internal consistency is a semantic artifact established through three primary methodological compromises: Axiomatic Exclusion of General Relativity (GR) and the cosmological dark sector (over 95% of the universe’s mass-energy content); Lack of Explanatory Closure, manifest in the model’s reliance on over 19 empirically inserted free parameters; and Technical Unnaturalness, requiring extreme, unphysical fine-tuning of its parameters. We formally derive the SM’s critical failures, including the 10¹21-order discrepancy of the Cosmological Constant Problem and the 10³4-level fine-tuning required to solve the Hierarchy Problem. [...]",
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