Much of modern physics is a complete scam. Whenever their models cannot explain something, they just make up some hypothesized particle or type of matter that would, if real, make their equations add up. Sometimes they find these particles, often they don't. And they run with unproven models relying on unproven forms of matter and energy, etc. for decades before they're either disproven or finally proven.
Quantum physics is an even bigger mess and at this stage is basically all hypotheses stacked on top of each other.