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essay by Steven Weinberg, whose Nobel prize is one testimony to his
grasp of the topic:
"The Standard Model is a field theory, which means that it takes the
basic constituents of nature to be fields - conditions of space,
considered apart from any matter that may be in it, like the magnetic
field that pulls bits of iron toward the poles of a bar magnet . . .
Larry