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Was the Higgs mass correctly predicted by asymptotic safety of gravity?
This paper was published in Phys Lett B in 2009, and predicted the Higgs mass to be 126 GeV based on the asymptotic safety of gravity. Is this prediction taken seriously by the theory community, or is ...
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Does the equivalence between inertial and gravitational mass imply anything about the Higgs mechanism?
For example: the role it might play in a theory of quantum gravity (ie causing space-time curvature)?
I realize that inertial mass can result from binding energy alone. Has the equivalence principle ...
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