Particle physics is definitely a weird world of its own- I'm happy to stick with my rocks for now. :)
I'd never heard of the heirarchy problem before this, at least by name. I was aware of the discrepancy in strength between the weak force and gravity, but the importance of the discrepancy and the sheer number of explanations (including supersymmetry) really surprised me.
You have a hierarchy as soon as two different scales are into the game. And when quantum corrections are in order, integrals over all scales have to been evaluated, and from there you probably can guess where one hits a rock (I am very proud of this stupid joke ;) ).
You should be, bad jokes and rock puns are the highest skill in geology!
Bad jokes consist in a universal science thing, I guess ;)