
Bonus: Damon Binder on Economic History and the Future of Physics
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What Are the Higgs Masses?
The Higgs masses is weird. It's really small in like a kind of technical way. If you if you believe the standard model and you were very naive about how quantum gravity should work, you should think that the Higgs masses about the same as the mass of quantum gravity stuff. That is about 10 to the 18 times heavier than the Higgs mass we actually see. And so people came up with these ideas like super symmetry and technicolor and various kind of other explanations.
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