sci.physics.particle

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-coming-revolutions-in-particle-physics

Btw... the articles about the Large Hadron Collider and coming
revolutions
in particle physics in Sci-Am mag are shared free in their site (full
articles).

The Hierarchy Problem and its solution is the top reason the LHC
was built in the first place. And it is not just scaling the energy
up,
it promises to discover new structures such as perhaps Santa Claus
being precipitated by the LHC or more exotic dimensional branes.

I think the Hierarchy Problem can have analogy this way. In a
boxing ring, it takes 10 rounds of time for the boxers to punch
themselves around. Let's say the boxing ring is the interaction
region or vertex of QED. In physics, what happens is that in
1 sec or less, all the punches in the 10 rounds happen at
once. This is the magic of QED & QM. Now the Hierarchy Problem
is the mystery how come a Muhammed Ali punch like an infant.
That is, the Higgs can decay into top quark-anti-top quark pairs
and because there are many paths, it can reach planck mass.
But in reality the higgs mass to satisfy the electroweak theory
is only very small. Why? Who knows, the LHC may discover
sequestering branes that protect the higgs from reaching the
planck mass.

It is surely interesting times ahead come July when the LHC
becomes operational.

I'm still perplexed why chiral symmetry can protect the masses
of the fermions and bosons from the higgs hierarchy problem.
Anyone kind enough to share?

Zilla