In contrast with the complicated methods of particle physicists, Unzicker says we should keep physics simple, as Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, Shrodinger and Dirac did. He says that Dirac worried about two elementary particles being a suspiciously complicated model, and Newton's supreme credo was simplicity. Einstein didn't refer just to his period when he said that laws of nature are unlikely to be true unless they were very simple. Einstein and his contemporaries disdained any theory with unexplained numbers - nowadays dozens of them are needed to describe the multitude of particles. All this Unzicker has on page 12, Chap. 1 of his book The Higgs Fake.
On page 11, Chap.1, Unzicker states that the current understanding of Nature in the twenty-first century is: "Four different interactions exist in Nature, and the building blocks of the atomic nuclei, protons and neutrons, consist of parts themselves: quarks and gluons. The quarks show up in six species called "flavours", each of which can appear in three different "colours". Besides heavy particles there are two other groups, middle-weights and a light sort, consisting of electrons, muons, tauons, and three if not more, corresponding types of neutrinos, not to forget W, Z, and Higgs Bosons. All these particles not only carry mass and electrical charge, but also so-called "isospin", "charm", "bottomness" and another couple of characteristics which define them. It would fill several pages if I tried to give you just a rough idea of the underlying notions. But lets pause for a moment. Imagine you are visiting another civilisation where a Shaman tells you the above story?" !!!!!!
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