Comment on "Commutator of the quark mass matrices in the standard electroweak model and a measure of maximal CP nonconservation"

One of the outstanding problems in physics is that of "explaining" the quark masses and mixings. The standard electroweak model, in spite of its dazzling empirical successes, provides only a partial solution to this problem by predicting that the quark mixing matrix is unitary. However, the values of the mixing parameters or the quark masses cannot be predicted. For example, if there are three families the mass matrices m and m' (referring respectively to charge —, and quarks) are arbitrary three by three matrices. A gedanken diagonalization of these matrices is supposed to yield the quark masses, i.e., UL mU?? = diag(m„, m„m, ), ULm'Uj? = diag(md, m„mb),