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32 - The Mystery of the Higgs Boson's Mass

Why This Universe?

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The Higgs Boson and the Nature of the Universe

The Higgs boson has to be as light as it is. There's a bunch of dead parts of the universe that have, you know, expected values of the Higgs mass but there's no one there to see it. And then I'll mention a third idea, and there are a lot more than three ideas for how to solve the hierarchy problem. The people who put it forth named it in naturalness, like the letter N, and then followed by the word naturalness.

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