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bserved values, 125 GeV and Mt xr. 173 GeV, the coupling runs neg- ative at h ot 101° —1012 GeV; this is the well-known vacuum stability problem of the Standard Model [26). Successful HI requires an O(2o) deviation from central values toward either larger Higgs boson mass or smaller top quark mass. Gauge depende

tly used by modern physicists to establish deep relationships between physical quantities. I just used it last year, for example, with my colleague Frank Wilczek, to demonstrate a fundamental property of gravity relevant to understanding the creation of our universe. Each contribution on its own would have f

last year, for example, with my colleague Frank Wilczek, to demonstrate a fundamental property of gravit

this subject? —Martin Rees, author of Just Six Numbers "It is an exhilarating experience to be led through this fascinating story, from Galileo to the Standard Model and the Higgs boson and beyond, with lucid detail and insight, illuminating vividly not only the achieve- ments themselves but also the joy of creat

for all sensible quantum field theories, except for Yang-Mills-type gauge theories. Gross now took on a new graduate student, twenty-one-year-old Frank Wilczek, who had come to Princeton from the University of Chi- cago planning to study mathematics, but who switched to physics after taking Gross's graduate

her lucky or astute because he served as the graduate supervisor of probably the two most remarkable intellects among physi- cists in my generation, Wilczek and Edward Witten, who helped lead the string theory revolution in the 198os and '9os and who is the only physicist ever to win the prestigious Fie

ne wanted to talk about the details in public. 2P_GrealetaleryEverTold_AC.indd 254 12/16116 3:06 PIA EFTA00286176 Spanking the Vacuum 255 That the Standard Model didn't fix in advance many of the details of the Higgs sector didn't dissuade many theorists from proposing models that "predicted" the Higgs mass

o the End of Time 293 tical to what was predicted. This caused incredible excitement in both theoretical and observational communities. Along with Frank Wilczek, I wrote a paper that not only pointed out that such an observation would indicate a symmetry-breaking scale that corresponded nicely to the Grand

l and observational communities. Along with Frank Wilczek, I wrote a paper that not only pointed out that

etical physics. It took several centuries or, if one counts back to the science of the Greeks, several millennia of hits and misses to come up with the Standard Model. So this is where we are. Are great new experimental insights just around the corner that may validate, or invalidate, some of the grander specula

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erved values, MH 125 GeV and Mt :4 173 GeV, the coupling runs neg- ative at h 107° — 1012 GeV; this is the well-known vacuum stability problem of the Standard Model [26]. Successful HI requires an O(2e) deviation from central values toward either larger Higgs boson mass or smaller top quark mass. Gauge depende