The Neutrino

The smallest particle that the Velcro model has in common with standard particle physics is the neutrino. However, the neutrino of the Velcro model does not come in the large array of "flavours" that standard physics has come up with. Instead, it comes with an ability to mimic the charge of other particles, so there is in effect an infinite gliding scale of neutrinos.

A neutrino in the Velcro model is a bundle of hooks and hoops in equal measures. When such a neutrino hits a negatively charged particle with a lot of hoops on it, the neutrino's hooks get entangled in the hoops of the negatively charged particle.

On leaving the negatively charged particle, the neutrino's hooks get pulled out. The neutrino gets a footprint of the particle that it bounced off of. It leaves the negatively charged particle with a small positive charge.

Conversely, a neutrino hitting a positively charged particle gets its hoops entangled with the hooks of the positive particle. When the neutrino bounces back into space, it leaves with its hoops drawn out. It has been imprinted with a small negative charge.

Flavours of neutrinos. Hoops pulled out, smooth, and hooks pulled out.

Neutrinos whiz through space at the speed of light, carrying footprints of what they have just bounced into. They carry information that they constantly share with other neutrinos.

When two neutrinos brush into each other, or collide head on, they average out their charge and direction of motion in such a way that the vector sum of the two neutrinos' charge and direction is exactly the same as the vector sum before the collision.

The collisions are in other words perfectly elastic, and charge is always averaged out.

Since there is an equal number of positive and negative quanta in the universe, the net charge of neutrinos in the universe is exactly zero. The vast majority of neutrinos have no or close to no charge. Only neutrinos that have just bumped into a positive or negative charge have a lot of information. However, this information is soon shared with other neutrinos as the charged neutrinos bounce about.

The Velcro neutrino is an efficient communicator of information, and this information is realized into action through collisions.

If two perfectly neutral neutrinos collide, they bounce off each other in a perfectly random manner. There is no net direction to their bounce. However, if two oppositely charged particles collide into each other, the bounce is abrasive. The two neutrinos latch onto each other's hooks and hoops, and there is a turn to the side.

Conversely, if two equally charged neutrinos collide, there will be less latching onto each other. Hooks on hooks and hoops on hoops do not react. The collisions will be bouncy rather than abrasive. The neutrinos will tend to bounce back where they came from.

This is how electric force is transmitted.

In between two equally charged surfaces, neutrinos collide in a manner in which they tend to stay in the field. The result is over-pressure of neutrinos in between the surfaces, and we have what we experience as electric repulsion.

In between two oppositely charged plates, neutrinos collide in a manner in which they latch onto each other and leave the field. The result is under-pressure of neutrinos in between the surfaces, and we have what we experience as electric attraction.

Repelling and attracting force communicated by neutrinos staying or leaving the field.