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Several questions still remain unresolved with respect to the standard model:- Why are there three pairs of quarks when it appears that only one pair is needed to make matter?
- What gives particles (also atoms and matter) mass?
- Why is the top quark (which is 35 times bigger than the bottom quark) so massive compared to the others?
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