  The discovery of the Higgs particle has yielded a specific value for the mass
of the Higgs boson, which, depending on some technical details in the
calculation of the $\overline{\mathrm{MS}}$ parameters (relevant for the high
energy range) from the physical parameters (measured in low energy range),
allows the Standard Model (SM) to hold up to the Planck scale about
$\Lambda_{\rm Pl} \sim 10^{19}~{\rm GeV}$. One then has the possibility that
the Higgs boson not only provides mass for all SM-particles but very likely
also has supplied dark energy that inflated the young universe shortly after
the Big Bang. The SM Higgs boson is a natural candidate for the Inflaton, and
the Higgs boson decays are able to reheat the universe after inflation. I argue
that the structures of the SM evolve naturally from a Planck cutoff medium
(ether) and thus find their explanation. That the SM is an emergent structure
is also strongly supported by Veltman's derivation of the SM from some general
principles, which we can understand as the result of a low-energy expansion. I
emphasize the role of the hierarchy problem and the problem of the cosmological
constant as causal for the Higgs inflation scenario. After the discovery of the
Higgs boson at 125 GeV, and considering the absence of beyond the SM particles
at the LHC, a new view on the SM of particle physics and its role in early
cosmology has become indispensable. Very likely, the spectacular Higgs
discovery turned out to have completed the SM in an unexpected way, revealing
it as an inescapable emergence which shapes the early universe.
