Paper XII of the Brane-Bulk Series The Higgs Field as Frozen Bulk Non-Uniformity B. D. Jagadeesan, MD

The Higgs eld is proposed to be a relic of the Big Bang annihilation: frozen bulk non-uniformity that persists as the universe expands and cools. At temperatures T > T_EW ∼100 GeV, the bulk was in thermal equilibrium and the non-uniformity was dynamical the Higgs was massless and the electroweak symmetry was unbroken. Below T_EW, one conguration of the non-uniformity was frozen in, spontaneously selecting a vacuum expectation value v(t) ∝H(t)(7/2). The Yukawa couplings (quark and lepton masses) are proportional to the ratio of each particle's focal deceleration amplitude to the Higgs vev explaining the mass hierarchy without ne-tuning. The hierarchy problem (why m_Higgs ≪M_Pl) is resolved because the Higgs mass is set by the QCD scale Λ_QCD, not the Planck scale: the Higgs eld is not a fundamental scalar but a collective mode of the QCD vacuum frozen at the electroweak transition. Part of the One-Octonion Brane-Bulk Framework series. Anchor DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19120873. Community: one-octonion-brane-bulk. Author: Bharathi Dasan Jagadeesan, M.D., University of Minnesota. ORCID: 0000-0002-1143-941X.