A Clockwork Theory
Matthew McCullough (CERN)

In this talk I will the hierarchy problem from a known, but less mainstream direction. I will argue that the hints we have observed for high energy physics may in fact be a smokescreen, with the new physics responsible for these hints lying much closer to accessible energies. A new mechanism, the clockwork, will be proposed as an underlying explanation for this smokescreen and connections to extra-dimensional scenarios will be sketched.