This work shows that the weak scale arises as an emergent property in the ψ₀-OCM, resolving the hierarchy problem.
The origin of the electroweak scale remains unexplained within the Standard Model, despite the experimental success of electroweak symmetry breaking and the Higgs mechanism. This unresolved scale selection underlies the hierarchy problem and has motivated decades of searches for new weak-scale particles, none of which have been observed. In this work, we show that within the ψ₀-OCM (Osborne Cosmological Model), the weak scale is not a fundamental parameter requiring stabilization, but an emergent redistribution-locking threshold. Mass arises only where redistribution becomes admissibly stabilized under boundary and detachment constraints, rendering weak gauge boson masses a consequence of stabilization rather than a primitive field property. This framework naturally explains the absence of new weak-scale particles at the LHC and predicts that future experimental tests will manifest only as smooth, correlated precision deviations rather than isolated resonances. The Standard Model Higgs formulation is recovered as an effective low-energy proxy for redistribution locking, preserving all observed phenomenology while reframing the ontology of mass and scale emergence. The ψ₀-OCM thereby resolves the hierarchy problem by removing the assumption that mass is fundamental, offering a boundary-first, experimentally consistent reinterpretation of electroweak scale physics.
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