Inflaton Spacetime: A Discrete Quantum Spacetime Model Underlying the Standard Models of Particle Physics and Cosmology

Contents

Introduction

Postulates of the Model

The Big Bang

Orderings of Spacetime

Expansion and Structure of Spacetime

Spin and Statistics of Points

The Early Universe

Inflation

Phase Transition

After Inflation

Particles and Reheating

Renormalization

Gravity

Back to Inflation

Electromagnetism

Vacuum Energy Density and the Cosmological Constant

The Speed of Light and Massless Particles

Weak Isospin

The Electroweak Higgs Mechanism

The Electroweak Force

Masses and Coupling Constants

Quarks, Baryons, QCD and the Strong Force

Proton Decay and Grand Unification

Three Generations of Leptons and Quarks

Neutrino Oscillations

Dark Matter

Dark Matter Halo Density Profiles

Local or Nonlocal?

Fate of the Universe

About Time

Comments

References