  The discovery of a Higgs boson at the electroweak scale appears to point
toward supersymmetry, as the most likely mechanism for protecting a scalar
boson mass from enormous radiative corrections. The earlier discovery of
neutrino masses similarly appears to point toward grand unification of
nongravitational forces, which permits (for neutrinos) Majorana masses, Dirac
masses, and a seesaw mechanism to drive the observed masses down to low values.
A third major discovery, cosmic acceleration suggesting a relatively tiny
cosmological constant, appears to point toward truly revolutionary new physics.
Many other problems and mysteries also indicate a need for fresh ideas at the
most fundamental level. Here a picture is proposed in which standard physics
and its extensions are obtained (through a nontrivial set of arguments) from
statistical counting and the local geography of our universe. The unavoidable
predictions include supersymmetry (at some energy scale), SO(N) grand
unification, a drastic diminishing of the usual cosmological constant, and a
nonsupersymmetric dark matter WIMP which should be detectable within the next
several years.
