  We inquire whether a resolution to the electroweak hierarchy problem could
reside in symmetries that relate the bosonic Weinberg-Salam Lagrangian with a
higher dimensional generally covariant theory. For this we consider a
three-brane that moves under the influence of a seven dimensional pure Hilbert
Einstein-like generally covariant theory. We introduce a change of variables
that combines the conformal scale of the metric tensor with the brane
fluctuations, so that the conformal scale becomes the modulus and the
fluctuations become the angular field degrees of freedom of a polarly
decomposed Higgs. When we assume that the four dimensional space-time
background of the generally covariant theory is locally conformally flat and
that the internal space is a squashed three-sphere, we arrive at one massless
and three massive vector fields akin those in the Weinberg-Salam model and
recover all the familiar ingredients of the symmetry broken bosonic
Weinberg-Salam model, except that there is no bare Higgs mass. The Higgs mass
is subject to dimensional censorship, its presence is forbidden by general
covariance. This proposes that a resolution to the electroweak hierarchy
problem might well reside in higher dimensions, in a Ward-Takahashi like
identities for general covariance that relate a non-vanishing Higgs mass to
dynamical breaking of general covariance. Moreover, the two electroweak gauge
couplings are both determined by the squashing parameter of the internal three
sphere and when we impose the condition that the vector boson masses must be in
line with custodial symmetry we arrive at the classical level to the Weinberg
angle sin^2 \theta_W = 0.296.
