**5. Summary and future prospects**

The GM, which contains fewer elementary particles (27 counting both particles and antiparticles and their three different color forms) and only two fundamental interactions (the electromagnetic and strong color interactions), has been presented as a viable simpler alternative to the SM (61 elementary particles and four fundamental interactions).

In addition, the GM has provided new paradigms for particle physics, which have led to a new understanding of several phenomena not addressed by the SM. In particular, (i) the mass of a particle is attributed to the energy content of its constituents so that there is no requirement for the Higgs mechanism; (ii) the mass hierarchy of the three generations of leptons and quarks is described by the degree of localization of their constituent rishons and/or antirishons; (iii) gravity is interpreted as a quantum mechanical residual interaction of the strong color interaction, which binds rishons and/or antirishons together to form all kinds of matter and (iv) the decay of the long-lived neutral kaon is understood in terms of mixed-quark states in hadrons and not CP violation.

The GM also predicts that the mass of a free neutron is greater than the mass of a free proton so that the free proton is stable. In addition, the model predicts the existence of higher generation quarks in hadrons, which in turn predicts mixed-parity states in hadrons. Further experimentation is required to verify these predictions and thereby strengthen the Generation Model.
