 The physical mass of the Higgs particle is empirically known to be \(m_{\FH,\Fphys}\approx125\,\textrm{GeV}\). The dominant contribution to \(\Delta m^2\), specified as \(h_t\Lambda^2\) in equation \(\eqref{Higgs}\), is due to the interaction between the Higgs particle and the heaviest fermion, the top quark, where \(h_t\) is some parameter that measures the strength of that interaction. Given the empirically known properties of the top quark, the factor \(\frac{h_t}{16\pi^2}\) is of order \(10^{-2}\). Due to its quadratic dependence on the cut-off scale \(\Lambda\) the term \(\frac{h_t}{16\pi^2}\Lambda^2\) is very large if the cut-off scale is large. If the Standard Model is valid up to the Planck scale \(\Lambda_{\textrm{Planck}}\approx10^{19}\,\textrm{GeV}\), the squared bare mass \(m_{\FH,0}^2\) and the effect of the vacuum fluctuations would have to cancel each other out to about 34 orders of magnitude in order to result in a physical Higgs mass of \(125\,\textrm{GeV}\). There is no known physical reason why the effects collected in the bare mass \(m_{\FH}\) should be in such a delicately balance with the effects from the vacuum fluctuations collected in \(\Delta m^2\). The fact that two fundamental scales—the Planck scale and the Higgs mass—are so widely separated from each other is referred to as the hierarchy problem. As a consequence of this problem, the violation of naturalness due to the Higgs mass is so severe.