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This bootstrap program had limited success, and it fell out of favor with the rise of [[quantum chromodynamics]]. It is now believed that mesons and baryons are made of elementary particles called [[quarks]] and [[gluons]].

TheseThere are a number of other more successful examples of using general principles to derive specific theories of physics, starting from [[Einstein]]'s 1905 paper on [[special relativity]]. The form of [[general relativity]] is almost entirely specified from general principles including the [[principal of equivalence]]. There has also been partial success in deriving [[Quantum mechanics|quantum theory]] from axioms of [[quantum logic]].

Bootstrap principles related to the S-matrix also lie behind [[Gabriele Veneziano]]'s early work on [[string theory]], which began as an approach to the strong interaction.

More generally, "bootstrapping" refers to any method of reaching higher levels of understanding by building offon lower foundations. Auticity refers to the self-building process of lowera complex system using simpler elements; for example, using contiguous points to construct ever more complex symmetries via interpolation levelsrules. The Game of Life is an automated computing example of the auticity process.

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