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| author | Labhard, Michael |
| author_facet | Labhard, Michael |
| contents | <p><em>This paper is archived as a speculative research work.</em></p> <p>We present a reformulation of the Higgs field as a scalar vacuum-stiffness assignment whose sole<br>physical role is to support causality. In this framework, geometry is not fundamental but arises as<br>the minimal bookkeeping required to represent non-uniform stiffness assignment, while kinematics<br>is governed independently by admissibility constraints. Mass, inertia, and curvature are shown to<br>be interface artifacts rather than primitive entities. General Relativity emerges uniquely as the<br>geometric representation of stiffness gradients, without reference to mass sources or force media-<br>tion. What is conventionally described as electroweak symmetry breaking is reinterpreted as the<br>manifestation of the Higgs field, marking the onset of causal support and geometric representation.<br>The formulation cleanly separates ontology from observer interface, eliminates the conceptual basis<br>for “quantum gravity” as a quantization problem, and establishes vacuum stiffness as the physical<br>substrate underlying geometry, inertia, and particle differentiation.</p> |
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| publishDate | 2026 |
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| spellingShingle | Existence, Causality, and Geometry: The Higgs Ontology Labhard, Michael Higgs field vacuum stiffness causality emergent geometry general relativity foundations electroweak structure <p><em>This paper is archived as a speculative research work.</em></p> <p>We present a reformulation of the Higgs field as a scalar vacuum-stiffness assignment whose sole<br>physical role is to support causality. In this framework, geometry is not fundamental but arises as<br>the minimal bookkeeping required to represent non-uniform stiffness assignment, while kinematics<br>is governed independently by admissibility constraints. Mass, inertia, and curvature are shown to<br>be interface artifacts rather than primitive entities. General Relativity emerges uniquely as the<br>geometric representation of stiffness gradients, without reference to mass sources or force media-<br>tion. What is conventionally described as electroweak symmetry breaking is reinterpreted as the<br>manifestation of the Higgs field, marking the onset of causal support and geometric representation.<br>The formulation cleanly separates ontology from observer interface, eliminates the conceptual basis<br>for “quantum gravity” as a quantization problem, and establishes vacuum stiffness as the physical<br>substrate underlying geometry, inertia, and particle differentiation.</p> |
| title | Existence, Causality, and Geometry: The Higgs Ontology |
| topic | Higgs field vacuum stiffness causality emergent geometry general relativity foundations electroweak structure |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18134036 |