The Inflaton Fields Are the Way to Define the Universe

Our picture of these fields is something we've only really ever seen when the universe is cold and old. And so it's like a useful description of how things work. We don't think thatt this is like the basic description of true realities. But through these other fields, are sen those other fields exist, or they didn't have energy before? How does it relate to the other quantum fields that we see to day?"