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I've been reading up on gauge theory and it isn't easy. Can someone give me an easy summary of its fundamental scope and postulates without too much math. It seems really important insofar as it defines itself as something of a "parent" theory to most of the leading cosmological models of the day, such as string theory, standard model, loop quantum gravity, etc. I just want to get a feel of what it is and WHY it is, how did this thing that seems to have been founded by a search for symmetry become the parent of all theoretical physics models?