Hi Dr Beckwith,
I liked your general essay trying to unify this inflation, cosmology and this quantum gravitation. Congratulations.
Personally I have reached it and I work about the mathemtical formalisation, I renormalize this puzzle and I have quantized it in all humility,I have thought beyond the box if I can say.
My main approach was to consider a Before this inflation in fact simply with new paramters to superimpose, I have made the same for this standard model in superimposing a new logic encoded .
I beleive that all is made of particles in a kind of gravitational aether sent from the central cosmological sphere, it is there that something codes and transforms the E in matters for me.
And so I have considered 3 main E8 and finite series of 3D spheres instead of points or strings. I have a specific serie primordial for these series, the same number than our cosmological finite series of spheres in fact and oddly we see the Dirac large number appearing.
So in resume I consider so that all is made of particles coded and so we have not a 1D main Cosmic field and strings at this planck scale , but Particles. That respect also the Waves particles duality.
See so now my general reasoning with these 3 E8 , we have one main E8 for the space vacuum with these finite series of 3D coded spheres playing between the zero absolute and the planck temperature, a Little bit if I said that this central cosmological sphere is a super matter and after distributes and codes the finite series of spheres where the space disappears when we apply a specific serie, take a central biggest sphere and after apply the primes for example, so we put smaller around and we continue, the number two becomes relevant for the two other E8 considered like fuels, one for the photons and one for the cold dark matter. So when these 3 E8 fuse, they create our geometries, topologies , properties of matters.
I have considered for this the Ricci flow, the Hamilton Ricci flow but like codes inside these series instead to consider the fields from external causes. I have considered also an assymetric Ricci flow to explain the unique things, the lie derivatives, the lie groups, the poincare conjecture,mthe topological and euclidian spaces and other mathematical Tools.
So for this quantum gravitation, I have considered the cold DM encoded also in nuclei , and series of quantum BHs and main codes farer than our nuclear forces, so I have simply changed the disatances and mass to respect the newtonian mechanics and surprise, I reach this quantum gravitation.
The problem was for me that the thinkers have only considered the photons like main essence and have also considered that all was made of fields. But my reasoning seems for me more logic because the particles are more foundamental, we cannot have fields without particles in motions rotations oscillations in contact with the Environments made also of particles, so we can have particles without fields without these motions but not the opposite, that proves that all is made of particles in a kind of superfluid considering this aether, vacuum , space.
Cosmologically speaking I work about my theory of spherisation, an optimisation evolution of the universal sphere or future sphere with these 3D quantum and cosmological spheres, I beleive strongly that even if we have evidences for this BB and the CMB, it is just a step but we have a deeper logic at this inflation and Before, this central cosmological sphere intrigues me a lot, it is there that this maybe infinite eternal consciousness transforms the E in matters and create and sends the main codes with these series of Spheres and these 3 E8 to rank the properties of matters and E.
The evolution is an important point is my theory, it is the meaning of the spherisation, I don t tell that all will be spherical but just that the universe is in optimisation.
Philosophically speaking it seems logic for me all this. I have really doubts that this universe has only created photons and that we had an infinite heat Before this physicality and that this universe oscillates with the strings these photons to create our reality, Witten abd Einstein have created a kind of prison for me and the thinkers now cannot go deeper and Think beyond the box.The Energy outside so for me is a thing that we cannot define and is not an infinite heat, it is different.
It seems odd, the strings have some relevances for the rankings of fields in maths but that is all, they are not foundamental for me simply. the D branes, the ADSCFT correspondance, the dualites, T , S or the Mtheory or this or that are Beautiful maths but all is false if these strings are not our foundamental mathematical and physical objects simply and the same for the correlated philosophy with this 1D Cosmic field.