The Decay That Must Happen: The Higgs as the First Three Rungs of the Tower, and the Forced Majorana Neutrino
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: One axiom. One operation. Zero free parameters. Why does the Higgs have the mass and self-coupling it does, and is the neutrino its own antiparticle? This paper forces both — and turns the second into a live experimental verdict. The Higgs sector is the first three rungs of the binary tower of the displaced vacuum: vacuum value v = 1/2 (depth 1), Higgs mass-part 1/4 (depth 2), self-coupling λ = 1/8 (depth 3). The Standard-Model relation m_H² = 2λv² then forces m_H = v/2 — the Higgs mass is exactly half the electroweak vacuum value (≈ 123 GeV vs measured 125), with λ = 1/8 = 0.125 vs measured ≈ 0.13. And the neutrino is single-handed: with no right hand for a Dirac mass, its one hand can only couple to its own antipode (the self-antipodal half-One), which is a Majorana mass. The fold forces the neutrino to be Majorana, and therefore forces neutrinoless double-beta decay to occur — a yes/no verdict the running detectors have not yet returned. Machine-checked; reproduces from one command. A standalone result within the Smithian Fold Theory of Everything (SFTOE). Full corpus, code, and the run-it-yourself VERIFY.md protocol: https://github.com/MettaMazza/Smithian-Fold-Theory
Author: Smith, Maria
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7166530315