TY - DATA T1 - The Forgotten Landscape PY - 2014/03/17 AU - Tommy Anderberg UR - https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/The_Forgotten_Landscape/963489 DO - 10.6084/m9.figshare.963489.v1 L4 - https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1422260 KW - electroweak KW - Higgs KW - low energy KW - eft KW - effective field theory KW - ssb KW - symmetry breaking KW - spontaneous symmetry breaking KW - gauge KW - field theory KW - Quantum field theory KW - qft KW - symmetry KW - Particle Physics KW - Computational Physics KW - Cosmology N2 - Essay as originally posted on FQXi, August 31, 2012 (http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/1462). Abstract: 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. ER -