  Is it a mere accident that the weak scale is exactly so much smaller than the
Planck scale, and at the same time exactly so much larger than the QCD scale?
Or are the experimentally-measured values of the corresponding gauge couplings
enough to help us determine dynamically these energy scales? And if nature has
indeed offered us the possibility of such a determination, why dismiss it and
fix these scales instead by means of arbitrary parameters within a multitude of
jejune theoretical frameworks which make this wonderful hierarchy seem
fortuitous?
