Back in 1999, as a procrastination exercise while working on my Ph.D. in physics at UC Davis, I spent a couple hours on a Friday night writing out a fairly ineloquent form of the Standard Model Lagrangian density. I unpacked Appendix E in Diagrammatica by Nobel Laureate Martinus Veltman and complied it into one equation, making the pdf and LaTeX files accessible on my old website.

Since that time, this form of the Standard Model Lagrangian density has received some attention in Symmetry Magazine, TED (Brian Cox, “CERN’s Supercollider”), Wikipedia, and PBS Space Time (“The Equation That Explains (Nearly) Everything!”), amongst other places including artwork (by James De Villiers). Recently, Don Lincoln at Fermilab has also highlighted it on his popular YouTube channel.

Since 2006, I’ve been a professor of physics at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and, since I haven’t been at UC Davis for a while, and don’t have easy edit access to that content on my old site, I’m making the files available here on my personal page. This includes some long overdue corrections. Only the pdfs are available below, but I will make the LaTeX file available soon. Thanks to the many people who have contacted me over the past 25 years to provide feedback and discussion!