The neutrino is one of the most elusive entities in physics. It penetrates matter almost unhindered and exhibits oscillatory behavior that challenges conventional particle descriptions.
In Quarkbase Cosmology, this elusiveness has a precise physical meaning: the neutrino is not a point particle. It is the most elementary volumetric compactation of the physical vacuum.
In the standard model, the neutrino is treated as an elementary particle with extremely small mass. This description reproduces experimental data, but it leaves fundamental questions unanswered.
Why is the neutrino so weakly interacting? Why is its mass many orders of magnitude smaller than that of other particles? Why does it play such a singular role in nature?
Quarkbase Cosmology answers these questions by redefining the neutrino’s physical nature.
The neutrino is the quarkbase N=1: the minimal, discrete, volumetric unit of vacuum compactation.
Because the neutrino is the minimal compactation, it disturbs the surrounding vacuum only slightly. Its interaction cross section is therefore extremely small.
This explains why neutrinos pass through matter almost without interaction, not as a mystery, but as a direct consequence of their structure.
Although minimal, the quarkbase is not structureless. It supports internal structural modes.
Interference between these modes during propagation produces oscillatory detection probabilities, as described in:
Neutrino oscillations without mass
Higher-order compactations of the vacuum are built from assemblies of quarkbases. As compactation number increases (N > 1), effective mass, inertia, and complex structure emerge.
In this sense, the neutrino is not merely another particle, but the foundational building block of all physical structure.
Because quarkbases underlie all higher structures, neutrinos play a central role in gravitational and cosmological phenomena.
For the cosmological framework, see:
The neutrino is not mysterious because it is strange. It is mysterious because it is fundamental.
In Quarkbase Cosmology, it is recognized for what it is: the smallest stable volumetric organization of the physical vacuum.
Author: Carlos Omeñaca Prado