Creon Levit just here at SLAC from NASA AMES. We had a quick discussion
with K. Dienes on the Higgs mechanism in the standard model of leptons
and quarks and it is consistent with my theory of emergent gravity in
the following sense: While I had the idea of the virtual
electron-positron pairs as the origin of the Higgs field, for now I do
not have to go out on a limb on that. I will simply point out that all I
need to start with is the VEV in the standard model (SM) which must be
charge neutral. For example, the inertia (rest mass) of electrons and
quarks is m ~ |VacODLRO| = "VEV" in SM language of the "Yukawa
couplings." But this is completely consistent with Wheeler's geon idea
provided that the ZPF induces an effective G* ~ 10^40G on scale ~
10^-13cm. That is, the subspace warp field B^I = Lp(argVEV)^,I is charge
neutral and can be identified with the charge neutral component of the
weak SU(2) complex doublet of spin 0 Lorentz scalars. Note that I is an
index for the Lorentz group in my theory. Therefore, there is a
conceptual consistency of gravity equivalent to inertia between my
theory of emergent gravity and the Higgs mechanism for the origin of
inertia in the standard model of elementary particles. Even though the
SM is in averaged flat space-time, the idea is that the elementary
particles are micro-geons with strong small-scale curvatures ~
G*m/c^2(h/mc)^3 = cG*m^4/h^3 ~ 10^26 cm^-2.