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Fundamental Formula · |H selected
H — The Higgs Scale
ELECTROWEAK VACUUM · v ≈ 246 GeV
The electroweak vacuum sets the mass scale for everything below it. The Higgs mechanism is presently a potential written down by hand — the ICT interest is whether the vacuum structure admits a constructive geometric restatement rather than a fitted polynomial.
Governing Equation — Higgs Potential
V(φ) = μ²(φ†φ) + λ(φ†φ)²
Current Problems at the H Scale
(really rough working list — draft, to be refined)
- Hierarchy problem — why is the Higgs mass so light against the Planck scale?
- Vacuum metastability — is our vacuum the true one?
- Origin of Yukawa couplings and the fermion mass spectrum
- Elementary or composite? No geometric picture currently exists
Scope: ICT scope note: watching brief. The constructive program enters below, at QWD.