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TITLE PAGE

1.INTRODUCTION

2.WELL-ESTABLISHED NEW PHYSICS

3.HYPOTHESIZED NEW PHYSICS

4.AN INTERLUDE: PARTICLES AND FIELDS

5.THE SCALAR FIELD

6.AN OVERVIEW OF THE HISTORY OF SCALAR FIELD THEORY

6.1.Renormalization in Electrodynamics

6.2.The Higgs Field

7.PROPERTIES OF THE SCALAR FIELD

8.THE SCALAR FIELD IN AN EXPANDING UNIVERSE

9.HIGGS-BASED KIRZHNITS-LINDE INFLATION

10.LINDE INFLATION WITH MONOTONIC V(K)

11.BEHAVIOR OF THE SCALAR FIELD UNDER EXPANSION AND COMPRESSION

12.SOME COSMOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS

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