Having seen how the photon communicates the magnetic force, it seems strange to think that the neutrino has no similar role. Furthermore, the photon seems busy enough, communicating both light and magnetism. To communicate the electric force too, it would have to deform in a very peculiar and controlled manner.
It would be much easier to use the available neutrino to carry the electric force.
Preferring the easy over the complicated, let's consider how the neutrino could be used to communicate force.
For the neutrino to communicate the electric force, it will have to communicate both orientation and magnitude, and since the neutrino is a very simple structure, there are not all that many ways it can carry these two bits of information.
Sticking with our model of negative charge as hoops and positive charge as hooks, the neutrino is a ball of hooks and hoops in equal measures.
One way it can carry both orientation and magnitude would be to somehow grow more or less hooky or fluffy.
If the hoops and hooks of the neutrino are such arranged that they will be pulled out somewhat when bouncing off charged objects, the information inherent in the charged object can be transferred to the neutrino.
Let us suppose a neutrino hits a proton making up the nucleus of a hydrogen atom.
When bouncing off the proton, the neutrino's hoops get stuck in the hooks of the proton. The hoops of the neutrino get pulled out as it leaves the proton on its way back into space. The information of the proton is thus being transmitted into space. Neutrinos leaving the proton are all a little more fluffy than average.
Let us further suppose that another neutrino bounces off the electron that orbits the hydrogen atom at a distance. It gets its hooks pulled out somewhat by the electron. Neutrinos leaving the electron are all a little more hooky than average.
When the fluffy neutrinos meet the hooky neutrinos in the space between the electron and the proton, they react with each other. We get the same effect that we described for collisions of equally polarized photons. The particles hook onto each other, make a sharp turn, and vacate the field.
The result of such a collision is under-pressure. We have attraction between the proton and the electron.
Conversely, neutrinos in between two electrons will be a little more hooky than average. Their collision will result in the neutrinos staying in the field. The result is over-pressure, and we have repulsion.
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