A neutrino-antineutrino plasma unifies spacetime and the Standard Model

We show that a plasma of right-handed neutrinos and left-handed antineutrinos fills space. The plasma defines the properties of spacetime, the vacuum, and non-neutrino particles. Neutrinos have spin and weak-force charge, so they have a weak-magnetic moment similar to the magnetic moment of an electron. Cosmological models that neglect this weak-magnetic moment are incomplete. Early in the universe, the density of neutrinos and antineutrinos was high enough that their weak-magnetic moments spontaneously aligned, roughly as electron magnetic moments spontaneously align when iron cools below its Curie temperature. This alignment released enough energy to make more neutrinos, kicking off inflation and filling space with right-handed neutrinos and left-handed antineutrinos at density ~8×1053/m3. The weak-magnetic binding energy of neutrinos in the plasma is so strong (~1016 eV) that they cannot mutually annihilate and we cannot detect them in today’s colliders. However, astrophysical neutrinos that exceed this energy are scattered, which explains the non-observation of neutrinos >1016 eV at the IceCube observatory. The theory has substantial explanatory power. From properties of the plasma, it derives the values of ħ, c, G, Λ, mZ, mH, mW, me, mμ, mτ, m3, ⍺, ⍺S, the origin and nature of the Higgs field, and why neutrinos appear to violate parity. It shows that Standard Model bosons, quarks, and charged leptons are quasiparticles, not fundamental. It shows that gravitation, electromagnetism, and the strong/color force are closely-related gradients in the plasma. It offers testable predictions of the lightest neutrino mass state, m1, the density and distribution of dark matter, and upper bounds on energy for astrophysical neutrinos and gamma rays.