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i mean that the standard model only appears to be correct because we only have the of frame of reference of "now." the model allows for paradoxes like the grandfather paradox. the correct model has no such flaws.

everett had the right idea with his many worlds interpretation but no one has ever implemented the model correctly. time isn't a property of space. it's a property of matter. which means that instead of having entire separate and parallel universes for each possible configuration of sub-atomic particles there are many different perpendicular universes that are constantly interacting with each other. the most obvious sign of this interaction is dark matter and dark energy.

the standard model will never be able explain quantum mechanics in the same way that a geocentric model would never be able to explain the movement of the stars.

we need a better model if we want to actually build a warp drive.

basically, all three models exist because someone collected data from an immediate perspective only.

step outside your door and look at the horizon, 'gee the earth sure looks flat to me.'

look at the earth from literally any other perspective, 'yeah, there's zero chance the earth is flat.'

look up at the sky and watch the sun, the moon, and the stars go by, 'earth sure seems like the center of the universe to me.'

collect data from literally any other perspective, 'yeah, no.'

the standard model is doing the exact same thing but with time.

all data collected from experiments related to quantum mechanics will eventually prove this. 'quantum mechanics' is really just a fancy way of saying 'reproducible effects that the standard model can't explain.'

I'm not sure what you mean, then. The Standard Model, as I'm familiar with the term, is the Standard Model of particle physics, which is a quantum theory. The bulk of what we call quantum mechanics is explained using the Standard Model in particular.

There are reproducible effects that the Standard Model can't explain, to be sure, but these are generally understood through other models and theories. For example, gravity, time and space is understood through General Relativity.

But broadly speaking, reproducible effects that the standard model can't explain are almost always not quantum mechanics. (Some do exist at the edges of quantum mechanics, mind, in the less understood corners of the Standard Model.)

But another point worth making here is that the Standard Model is a scientific idea; it's a provisional set of ideas, built on the basis of evidence, that is subject to review or rejection in the face of future evidence.

Flat earth and geocentrism are not scientific ideas. Flat earth is a modern palingenetic invention that mimics (but isn't!) pre-scientific thought regarding the shape of the world, and geocentrism is a moral claim about the place of the Earth in the universe. It's not a serious attempt at describing relationships in the physical world, it's a claim about the function of the rest of the universe as it relates to the Earth.

The Standard Model, as such, unless you use the term to mean something very different, cannot ever really succeed "flat earth" and geocentrism, because these are not things of the same kind!