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Yes, not that they do exist but perhaps the notion of how a quantum field theory of quarks is really nearly the same thing in some ways as an Ising model, etc. The ultimate goal is to understand how these disparate physical systems are similarly mathematically structured and how to get from one to the next, and to find out the limits of the space of theories. (The signposts and roads analogy in the article is a good one.)


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