Is the Higgs Boson as Heavy as We Think It Should Be?

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It's possible that a now already processes, and stars are sensitive to features of the weak interactions. But there are people who have thought more seriously about this than i have. You need somebody with a better astrophysicist than me,. probably you tas me e, to sort of enumerate the possibilities. A lot of them don't come close to anything like the universee would we see around us. And so is it plausibleit is very, i should say, very clear, but it's relatively transparent?

Modern particle physics is a victim of its own success. We have extremely good theories — so good that it’s hard to know exactly how to move beyond them, since they agree with all the experiments. Yet, there are strong indications from theoretical considerations and cosmological data that we need to do better. But the leading contenders, especially supersymmetry, haven’t yet shown up in our experiments, leading some to wonder whether anthropic selection is a better answer. Michael Dine gives us an expert’s survey of the current situation, with pointers to what might come next.

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Michael Dine received his Ph.D. in physics from Yale University. He is Distinguished Professor of Physics at the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz. Among his awards are fellowships from the Sloan Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, American Physical Society, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as the Sakurai Prize for theoretical particle physics. His new book is This Way to the Universe: A Theoretical Physicist’s Journey to the Edge of Reality.

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