Dear Schmelzer, We are pleased to inform you that your manuscript, "Condensed matter interpretation of SM fermions and gauge fields", has been accepted for publication in Foundations of Physics. Please remember to quote the manuscript number, FOOP438R1, whenever inquiring about your manuscript. [...] With best regards, Gerard 't Hooft Chief Editor Reviewer #3: The author added more detailed explanation on weak gauge fields, which seem to effectively appear as phonon-like modes from a deformation of the lattice. There are still ambiguous points to be clarified in order to make the complete interpretation of the Standard Model as the condensed matter system, and some of them are left as future subjects. Nevertheless, I think that the approach would give some interesting possibility, and I agree with the publication.