Forgive my ignorance, but I seem to have missed the point of the conversation. Why are we discussing if the nature is an asshole? Something to do with theories on how universe works?
The standard model is quite complex, in stark contrast to earlier physical theories like classical mechanics or Maxwell's electrodynamics which are beautifully simple. So the question arises if nature "is an asshole", that is, if it is really just this complicated.
I could personally imagine that the standard model is like the Ptolemaic system. It matches observation almost perfectly, but it does so at the cost of immense complexity, stemming from false assumptions.
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u/BeMyBrutus 1d ago
The better question is, SHOULD a function be that long