ns of one leptonic species into another are accomplished as a matter of course. Now it is most curious to note that the observed oscillations of the neutrinos apparently preserve a “memory” of this same primordial symmetry state, and in this reflection we catch a glimpse of why both the IVBs and the neutrinos must share a massive parameter. The neutrino cannot interact unless the “memory” of the electroweak symmetric energy state it carries within itself can be recreated, matched, or decoded by the IVB field – a “lock and key” mechanism. There is something special about the mass of a neutrino which allows it to interact with (and only with) the mass of an IVB. Hence we arrive at the curious phenomenon of a particle which carries its charge in the form of mass, and yet can travel through light years of lead without interacting.
It has been suggested that the three-family structure of the particle spectrum (including the quarks) is necessary to produce the weak force asymmetry which allows the primordial creation of matter during the “Big Bang”. If this is true, the “harmonic” 3-part family structure of the elementary particles may have its ultimate explanation as “anthropic” necessity. Because “cosmological” neutrinos can carry, without interaction, significant amounts of energy (due to the phenomenon of relativistic mass?), they may have been instrumental in the dispersal of energy during the initial expansion of the Big Bang, preventing the collapse of the entire system into a cosmic-scale black hole.
The hypothetical leptoquark neutrino is a candidate for “dark matter”. This neutrino could be quite massive (and possibly relatively slow moving?), and because it is sufficiently different from the other leptonic neutrinos, it may not participate in their “harmonic” spectrum and oscillations. It is “sterile” to the extent that it can only be seen during proton decay or proton creation – via the “X” IVB.
Hiding the Neutrino’s Identity Charge
We can think of neutrinos as traveling (existing) from one IVB “event” to another – almost as an airplane travels only between airports. Typically, the neutrino is “born” or initiated in an IVB event (for example, during the decay of a muon to an electron, in which both a muon neutrino and an electron antineutrino are produced (in all reactions below, antiparticles are underlined; the electroweak transformation matrix of the “W” IVB is represented by square brackets; virtual particle-antiparticle pairs of mesons and leptons are enclosed in parentheses)):
u-[ (e+ x e-) ]W- —> vu + ve + e-
In such an initiating decay, neutrinos pick up their symmetry debt of “identity” and perform their function as alternative charge carriers (and conservers) of the muon’s and electron’s identity charges. Subsequently, the neutrinos carry their charges through spacetime at nearly the speed of light until they engage in another IVB interaction in which their services as alternative charge carriers are required, or they are annihilated/neutralized by corresponding anticharges. Neutrino oscillations during flight mean that weak force charge conservation may by observed at the generic level of lepton number rather than the specific level of lepton identity: what began as an electron neutrino may end up as a muon neutrino, etc. Once within the transformation matrix of the “W” IVB, however, oscillations cease and weak force charge is conserved at the specific level of lepton identity: electron neutrinos only react with electrons, etc. Below I give abbreviated examples of baryon transformations occurring in the Sun and in the neutrino detector:
Solar fusion: proton —> neutron
uud+[ (du– x du+)(e- x e+) ]W+ —> udd + ve + e+
Neutrino detector: neutron —> proton
ve + udd[ (du+ x du-)(e+ x e-) ]W- —> udu+ + ve + e-
In the detector reaction, there is no way to balance the lepton number of the reaction unless we assume that the incoming (solar) electron neutrino is conserved as the hidden (but real) number charge (identity charge) of the product electron. It is as if the electron is transformed from virtual to real by