Why doesn't the Higgs produces a cosmological constant

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The discussion centers on the discrepancy between the predicted cosmological constant from the Standard Model of elementary particles and the experimentally observed value. It highlights that the vacuum energy density is expected to be 246 GeV4, yet the observed dark energy is only a few meV4. The conversation raises questions about the coupling of gravitons to Higgs bosons and suggests the possibility of a tachyonic world with a tachyo-Higgs at -246 GeV to reconcile this difference. The participants acknowledge the complexity of quantum field theory and its implications for understanding vacuum energy.

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If the vacuum contains all these Higgs bosons, at expectation of <246> GeV in vacuum, why isn't there a cosmological constant, given the vacuum an energy density of 246 GeV^4 , instead we see dark energy at a few meV^4. Could just say that the graviton doesn't couple to the Higgs at all, but doesn't that violate the
equivalence principle. Do we need another tachyonic world, which has a tachyo-Higgs at -246 GeV to cancel
out the vacuum energy? Is there any other way to solve this mystery?
 
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It does, but nobody knows why there is a discrepancy between the predicted value of the comsological constant from the standard model of elementary particles and the experimentally observed value.

The discrepancy is much larger than what you indicated in your post, due to the nontrivial quantum field theory vacuum:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_catastrophe
 

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