Rejoice-The Higgs Potential as a function of temperature (T) •In QFT, temperature changes the vacuum •Nature chooses the vacuum that is (1) a global min. & (2) stable •At high T (e.g. Big Bang), the Higgs will want to be at h=0 at which point all particles become massless!pic.twitter.com/UGMRAfJGcL
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Replying to @YuhangChen13
Indeed, it's the statistical mechanics of a quantum field with a boltzmann distribution
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Replying to @InertialObservr @YuhangChen13
i guess i should say a quantum field whose vacua are boltzmann distributed
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