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Inflaton, Mother of the Universe
quantalm writes "Forget the god particle, we're talking about the universe's particle mother. The theory of supersymmetry has rolled out two new ideas about the particle that puffed spacetime up from smaller than a proton to bigger than a soccer ball: it could be the 'unified particle' of Grand Unified Theories or a smaller-scale version that could be tested at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN."
Anyway just .02 cents.
OR PERHAPS $20! You won't know until you look.
If I had a nickel for every time I had a nickel, I'd be richcursive!
Inflation didn't begin one planck time after the big bang. So far as we can tell, it was more like 10^6 planck times. (See Mukhanov http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0503203 or Rindler's book on cosmology). There certainly are useful models for this phase too - various string theories, ekpyrosis, loop gravity are amongst the candidates. Also your statement about 'quantum foam' is gobbledygook - a 'non-zero sum' of what? Energy? Mass? Perhaps you're trying to say that there is matter associated with empty space, a la cosmological constants etc?
I'm afraid I'm also going to have to jump on statements like "As you approach T=0, the rate of change of time also approaches zero."
Rate of change of time with respect to what exactly? dt/dt =1 by definition, so what is time changing with respect to? Hawking most certainly does NOT support the idea that there was no big bang or no time for it to take place - in fact the Hawking-Penrose singularity theorems rather prove that GR predicts that not only was there a big bang, but it happened a finite amount of proper time ago. "Likewise time follows a parabolic path" - parabolic with respect to what other parameter? The whole point of GR is that we can change coordinates and reparametrize as necessary (see rindler coordinates for black holes, for example, or proper-time descriptions of cosmology). Therefore the singularity can certainly be placed at a finite point on (the boundary of a) space-time manifold.
Hydrogen bomb per cubic centimeter doesn't even come close to the energy scale you're looking at - it's more akin to all the matter in our galaxy being packed within the size of an atom. I'm afraid your post is mostly wrong - where are you getting your material from?