Geometry + 4-Potentials = Unified Field Theory

The Higgs is never referred to as a tachyon. The standard model works for particles with no mass which is a problem, since the particles do have mass. Prof. Higgs provided a way using a false vacuum to give mass to particles in the standard model without breaking it.

My proposal suggests that if gravity is unified with the other forces correctly, there is no need for the Higgs mechanism. There still is no need for the aether, the math is prettier than that :-)

The E and B fields cannot be viewed as a scalar field, they just don't behave like scalars. Look at an EM field from a moving reference frame, and the way all the E's and B's mix together is quite confusing but well documented. EM is the result of an anti-symmetric rank 2 tensor field, not a scalar field (you would need 6 scalar fields too, one for Ex, Ey, Ez, Bx, By, and Bz, arg!).

Good luck in your studies.

Excellent points: one needs to understand how the weak and strong forces could integrate with gravity and EM. At the time I did this talk, I had no idea. With the development of analytic animations using quaternions, I have some idea, but not enough to do calculations. Search for "standard model" to get a gist (and yes, I recognize it is incomplete).