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==COSMOLOGY==> 'Uhhh ... how sure are we that everything is made of these?'
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Neither of them is trying to model the universe (that is the purview of cosmology). We are trying to model very particular phenomenon happening in the universe and there is no reason to expect them to modeled using the mathematical structure. The fact that they are is very fascinating.