What I find interesting is that these sterile neutrinos do not "badly broke" the Standard Model,
instead they come as a complement and obey all the other principles otherwise held for particle physics (symmetry groups, isospins, etc).
On the contrary, as they are the missing right-handed neutrinos required to explain the mass of left-handed (i.e. "normal") neutrinos through the Higgs mechanism,
it may instead come as a new victory of the explanatory power of the Standard Model.
Agreed. While there are of course exceptions to the standard model that may end up being explained with sedenions and higher dimensionality, it's still quite robust.
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On the contrary, as they are the missing right-handed neutrinos required to explain the mass of left-handed (i.e. "normal") neutrinos through the Higgs mechanism,
it may instead come as a new victory of the explanatory power of the Standard Model.