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It has been proposed by Heisenberg (1967) and Fritzsch and Minkowski (1975) that the fundamental Lagrangian of nature should be completely symmetric and that all observed asymmetries are due to asymmetries in the vacuum state. Thus, all asymmetries would arise from spontaneous symmetry breaking of the ultimate grand unified theory. The full symmetry of the theory is expected to hold in the interactions above some critical temperature Tc. Below that critical temperature, multiple vacuum states can be arrived at by the process of spontaneous symmetry breaking. Each “state” corresponds to a unique set of vacuum expectation-values of scalar fields (or their equivalent) which, having been randomly determined through a dynamical instability, themselves determine a new, selfcontained gauge-field theory. Thus, a theory of nature is arrived at randomly from a number of equally probable theories, the original Lagrangian not having uniquely determined the “low-temperature” physics which we observe at our accelerators.
Cosmology is often wrong but never in doubt. L. Landau
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. A. Schopenhauer
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Stecker, F.W. (1982). A New View of Baryon Symmetric Cosmology Based on Grand Unified Theories. In: Wolfendale, A.W. (eds) Progress in Cosmology. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 99. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7873-7_1
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