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The 20th century saw a series of radical transformations in our understanding of the physical world. The work of Planck, Schrödinger, Einstein, and Feynman, among others, dismantled the classical framework and established the quantum and relativistic paradigms that define modern physics. The technologies that have since reshaped society, from semiconductors to global positioning systems, are direct applications of these foundational theories. A stark contrast has emerged in our own time: while technology advances at an accelerating pace, progress on the most fundamental questions in physics appears to have significantly decelerated.

The discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 was a monumental experimental achievement and a profound validation of the Standard Model. However, it was also a moment of consolidation rather than revolution. It was the capstone of a theoretical structure formulated decades prior, and since its discovery, no comparable, paradigm-shifting results have emerged from experimental particle