Failure is a temporary phenomenon. Giving up makes it permanent.
Finally got a response from Chris. The culprit being the confusion caused by the Cosmological Higgs confronting the Standard Model Higgs. A very weak coupling constant can cause the component of the Higgs (which we refer to as the cosmological Higgs field) to hit the bottom of the potential well, way before the electro weak component because it decays faster then the roll down of the electroweak higgs component. The result, after the electroweak symmetry breaking, the corresponding field can provide the energy to push the cosmological higgs component and throw in a metastable vaccum state along coinciding with the hadronic particle generation. As a result the cosmological higgs is trapped in the metastable vaccum and symmetry breaking will assure the electroweak higgs to oscillate around the stable position. Once this is accomplished then there is no disturbance whatsoever to the trapped cosmological higgs. This scheme shall throw the higgs into atleast two different sectors, the visible(electroweak) and our "hidden". Note that this whole process takes approximately
seconds from the Big Bang. Since the whole process doesn't affect the visible sector the hadron masses will remain unaffected. Or essentially the cosmological higgs theory is an effective field theory. A very interesting observation, this is approximately the same time needed for inflation. Meaning, from that point of time onwards, just after inflation there is a constant term corresponding to the dark energy. Let me shed some more light, on exactly what I am zeroing down to.
Most of the physical theories that we have are some effective theories -- limiting form of a larger and more encompassing theory. Then there are assumptions -- if we want to predict the dynamics of, say, an electron then we have to input the mass of the electron and also we are tacitly assuming the existence of the electron. QED, which is an effective theory is very successful in describing the dynamics thereafter. But we do not have any theory which predicts the existence of an electron. So we need a fundamental theory, which can predict the very existence of different particles and their interactions. In the Big Bang scenario, we believe that the universe has an infinite number of fields. At the time of the Bang, the fields start evolving. All the fields are assumed to be frozen till, just before the Big-Bang. The answer to the question why this has to be the case is no different than that of the existence of the electron. The argument sounds cosmetic, but it's better than the infamous "Cosmological Argument", and also helps to make progress without a fundamental theory. It has to be true if we want to derive an effective theory which can make some sense. These fields are considered weekly interacting among themselves, meaning their evolution is independent of one another and hence their dynamics closely resembles that of very simple point like scalar particles. The advantage of the whole exercise is that the theory of scalar fields is very simple. There cannot be anything simpler than the simplest.
Most of the physical theories that we have are some effective theories -- limiting form of a larger and more encompassing theory. Then there are assumptions -- if we want to predict the dynamics of, say, an electron then we have to input the mass of the electron and also we are tacitly assuming the existence of the electron. QED, which is an effective theory is very successful in describing the dynamics thereafter. But we do not have any theory which predicts the existence of an electron. So we need a fundamental theory, which can predict the very existence of different particles and their interactions. In the Big Bang scenario, we believe that the universe has an infinite number of fields. At the time of the Bang, the fields start evolving. All the fields are assumed to be frozen till, just before the Big-Bang. The answer to the question why this has to be the case is no different than that of the existence of the electron. The argument sounds cosmetic, but it's better than the infamous "Cosmological Argument", and also helps to make progress without a fundamental theory. It has to be true if we want to derive an effective theory which can make some sense. These fields are considered weekly interacting among themselves, meaning their evolution is independent of one another and hence their dynamics closely resembles that of very simple point like scalar particles. The advantage of the whole exercise is that the theory of scalar fields is very simple. There cannot be anything simpler than the simplest.
May be the underlying principle is some kind of new physics , which I don't know , but sure we can guess its behaviour from our scenario. May be if this is the case then I can for sure say that we cannot detect the higgs boson in the near future. The energies have to be pushed further and far up. Remember, atleast one of the criteria for any fundamental(unified) theory of nature, should be, given the number of fields, able to predict the precedence of their evolution.(which should evolve faster?) This is an explanation I could come up, based on the "Hidden Higgs Conjecture". Now, how real this scenario is and how near are we on stumbling the truth or is it a surreal and inconspicuous attempt to evade the truth ? Only time will tell.
Right now my guess is no better than yours!
Right now my guess is no better than yours!

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