Talk:Hierarchy problem

message: "the weak force is 1032 times stronger than gravity."
Fundamental interaction shows the relative strength of the weak force (compared to gravity) as 1025.  Although it also mentions that the strengths are approximate, 107 is quite a difference.  How can these numbers be reconciled?— Preceding unsigned comment added by ‎ 212.59.24.222 (talk) 21:35, 14 June 2007
: The strength relative of forces is not well defined and depends on the distance and how the force is being measured.  The 1032 is the ratio of GN to GF.    I don't know where 1025 arises from, but it could be the strength of gravity at the weak scale relative to the strength of the weak force at the weak scale.   I personally don't like these quantifiers, they give a rather misleading impression and can vary largely (because the functional forms of the forces are different) jay 02:37, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relative strength of the weak force 

message: Are the two problems mentioned in the particle physics section the same problem or different problems? The first being the difference in scale between the weak force and gravity and the second being the stability of the Higgs mass to radiative corrections. For example, can I imagine solutions that solve one problem and not the other? I know it is fashionable in these days of extra dimensions to consider the two as being solved by the same mechanism, but what, for example, does supersymmetry have to say about the relative weakness of gravity? --Eujin16 (talk) 06:16, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Just rediscovered my old comment on this.  I think I was a bit off base; for one thing, M_W depends on the Higgs vev (v), not the Higgs mass (M_h): M_W^2=g^2v^2/4.  However, there are radiative corrections to the electroweak parameters which vary logarithmically with M_h/M_W, so we know (from precision measurements of those parameters) that the Higgs mass can't be more than a few times the W mass.  I found this reference helpful: http://arxiv.org/abs/hepph/9901280  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tim314 (talk • contribs) 21:17, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Difference of problems 

message: I actually do not know how to cite on Wikipedia, and I don't have time to learn (sorry if it is really easy to do, and I seem lazy because of that). But, for the new sections (SUSY corrections and ADD) I have listed the sources of the 'proofs', so in case anyone wants to clean up/ add to this article, can they please also do the citations:
--Drgnrave (talk) 23:28, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations Please 

message: Can someone please help me spell out the common source of both Hierarchy problem and Cosmological constant problem? I seem to see a clear connection here.Mastertek (talk) 08:52, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hierarchy problem and Cosmological constant problem 

message: I feel "cancellation" should have a link. Not sure it should be Cancellation property or that might even be misleading so I didn't dare put it (I'm not a physicist). Leaving the next step for somebody more in the know for the sake of correctness, cheers --217.81.173.136 (talk) 23:49, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing link for "cancellation" 

message: Apparently there's a problem in the hierarchy.  If only we knew what hierarchy we were talking about in the first place...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.139.254.117 (talk) 20:47, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hierarchy of what? 

message: The attempt to connect the hierarchy problem to the size of the Monster Group seems unconvincing. This section also doesn't cite any sources.  Is this something any published papers discuss, or is this just the speculation of whoever wrote this section?  John Baez (talk) 07:04, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Monster group 

message: Most of the sources here are papers published via Arxiv. Per WP:ARXIV, these likely aren't all valid. Should we add bsn, cn, etc after some of the sections for various hypothesis, or are these good cites? Big Money Threepwood (talk) 21:59, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arxiv sources