  Hadron properties and interactions are emergent from QCD. Atomic and
condensed matter physics are emergent from QED. Could the local gauge
symmetries of particle physics also be emergent? We give an introduction to
this question and recent ideas connecting it to the (meta)stability of the
Standard Model Higgs vacuum. With an emergent Standard Model the gauge
symmetries would "dissolve" in the ultraviolet. This scenario differs from
unification models which exhibit maximum symmetry in the extreme ultraviolet.
With emergence, new global symmetry violations would appear in higher
dimensional operators.
