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Re: Scientists Plan to Blow Up the World!

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From: Mcirvin
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 22:55
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brahm@cco.caltech.edu (David E. Brahm) writes:

>Ha!  The Standard Model surprises you again!  If the top is heavy and the
>Higgs is light (but with "reasonable" values), the Standard Model predicts
>our vacuum is metastable; see
>  P. Arnold & S. Vokos, Phys.Rev.D44:3620 (1991)
>  G. Anderson, Phys.Lett.B243:265 (1990)

[description of conditions deleted]

>(Both Eric Carlson & Larry Hall probably know of these papers, since
>Stamatis Vokos and Greg Anderson are both LBL grads.)

This result was precisely what Carlson was talking about, actually.
I didn't know that the necessary conditions were *that* reasonable.
Excuse me while I go hide under the bed.
-- 
Matt McIrvin
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