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The higgs field is not believed to be in a false vaccum. Rather, it is believed to be in a circular minimum of a rotationally symmetric potential, with the non-zero part meaning the minimum is not at the point it is rotationally symmetric about. False vacuums are theoretically possible but there is little evidence that the universe is in one. (Note: the rotations here are not rotations of physical space, just of the space of possible values of the higgs field)