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- From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
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- Subject: Re: Scientists Plan to Blow Up the World!
- Message-ID: <mcirvin.721176929@husc8>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 22:55:29 GMT
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- brahm@cco.caltech.edu (David E. Brahm) writes:
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- >Ha! The Standard Model surprises you again! If the top is heavy and the
- >Higgs is light (but with "reasonable" values), the Standard Model predicts
- >our vacuum is metastable; see
- > P. Arnold & S. Vokos, Phys.Rev.D44:3620 (1991)
- > G. Anderson, Phys.Lett.B243:265 (1990)
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- [description of conditions deleted]
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- >(Both Eric Carlson & Larry Hall probably know of these papers, since
- >Stamatis Vokos and Greg Anderson are both LBL grads.)
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- This result was precisely what Carlson was talking about, actually.
- I didn't know that the necessary conditions were *that* reasonable.
- Excuse me while I go hide under the bed.
- --
- Matt McIrvin
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