Meantime, it remains unclear whether any experiment can ever be done by humans that might reveal some essential predictive inadequacy in either general relativity or quantum theory. Each, supreme in its own domain and haughtily ignoring the other, seems all but invulnerable.
Weinberg's three volumes (Quantum Theory of Fields, CUP) are probably optimal for theoretical physicists, but they fall far short of the level of rigor and explicitness which most modern mathematicians expect. For that, first there's Glimm-Jaffe, and then Deligne-Kazhdan et. al.
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Again, it really depends on what you want. If you must know is why everything is as it is, you can't expect standard sources to help much; most give short shrift to first principles, and focus instead on getting efficiently to and through the procedures and their applications.
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I think the main thing to know, though, is that understanding the standard model means understanding both quantum field theory in general, and the quantization of gauge fields in particular -- and neither is easy to learn. Even brilliant people need to budget some years for this.
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