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Could some kind of vacuum decay modify the most fundamental laws of physics?

A false vacuum is a hypothetical vacuum that is not actively decaying, but somewhat yet not entirely stable ("metastable"). It may last for a very long time in that state, and might ...
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Is the value of the scalar components of the Higgs field known?

As I understand the relevant popular sources (example), since the end of the Electroweak epoch, the Higgs field became fixed in the whole known Universe. Thus, we are somewhere on the deep blue part (...
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