10.6084/m9.figshare.963489.v1 Tommy Anderberg Tommy Anderberg The Forgotten Landscape figshare 2014 electroweak Higgs low energy eft effective field theory ssb symmetry breaking spontaneous symmetry breaking gauge field theory Quantum field theory qft symmetry Particle Physics Computational Physics Cosmology 2014-03-17 16:28:00 Journal contribution https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/The_Forgotten_Landscape/963489 <p>Essay as originally posted on FQXi, August 31, 2012 (http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/1462). Abstract:</p> <p>Contrary to common lore, the standard model of particle physics has a “landscape” of physically inequivalent vacua, most of them quite different from ours. I discuss some cosmological consequences and related observational constraints, show how non-perturbative electroweak dynamics selects our special vacuum, and put an old idea to rest.</p>