The Inflaton and its Mass

In the context of the two fluid model of space-time fluctuations proposed to tame the transplanckian problem encountered in black hole physics, it is postulated that the inflaton is the fluctuation of mode density, “the vapor component” of the model. The mass of the inflaton is occasioned by the exchange of degrees of freedom between the “vapor” and the “liquid”, the planckian “soup” in which usual “cisplanckian” fields propagate. This exchange between vacuum fluctuations is modeled after its counterpart in the real world i.e. black hole evaporation. In order of magnitude, a very rough semiquantitative estimate, would situate the mass somewhere between 10−10 and 10−5 planck masses, the largest uncertainty being the mass of the planckian black hole fluctuation i.e. the entropy that one ascribes to