ar X iv : h ep - p h / 96 07 37 5 v 1 1 9 Ju l 1 99 6 Influence from the Future ∗

We argue that some of the parameters in the laws of Nature would be well understood, under the assumption that there is an influence from the future as well as from the past, in the sense that the principle of locality (or causality) is not valid at the fundamental level. However, locality is supposed to be broken only in the mild way that all the non-local influence comes from integrals over the whole of space-time (including the past as well as the future) and acts at all moments and all places with the same effect. Thus the observable effects of the lack of locality can only be seen in the constants of Nature. Our cleanest prediction is the Higgs boson mass being MH = 149± 26 GeV, which in addition assumes that the pure Standard Model is valid (i. e. no new physics) until the Planck scale. Adding the assumption that the two vacuum states needed in our model come about naturally requires a strong first order transition between them; together with the assumption of the Planck units being fundamental, this leads us to also predict the mass of the top quark, Mt = 173±5 GeV, and a more precise value of the Higgs boson mass, MH = 135± 9 GeV. With the assumption of our favourite gauge group beyond the Standard Model: the anti-grand unified group SMG (three copies of the Standard Model gauge group, one for each generation, first appearing close to the Planck scale), it is also possible to obtain impressively good predictions for the three fine structure constants in the Standard Model. We also discuss the extension of the SMG group by an extra abelian factor U(1)f and the fermion mass matrices in this model. Other vacua than the present one might appear in the future due to human activity. It is even suggested that life itself could be the miracle needed to avoid a time machine paradox like the matricide paradox: life and we ourselves were made in order to produce a vacuum bomb inaugaurating the next vacuum. The breaking of locality is really of the same mild character as suggested by baby universe theory, so the present work may be considered as a development of baby universe theory.