Could Electrons Be the Integral of Sterile Neutrinos?

Electrons are some of the most familiar building blocks of our world. They carry charge, give structure to atoms, and make electricity possible. But what if electrons are not as “fundamental” as we think? What if they actually emerge from something deeper?

That’s the intuition behind my recent exploration: maybe electrons are the integral of sterile neutrinos.

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The Load Hypothesis

In my broader load hypothesis, neutrinos act as the load carriers of reality. They’re the hidden scaffolding that holds up the visible world. Sterile neutrinos — the ghostly cousins of the active ones — may be even more fundamental.

I also speculate about a “power dimension,” with its own mediator particle, that could be the source of both bosons and fermions. In that framework, electrons could appear as an emergent projection: the result of integrating sterile neutrinos across this hidden structure, producing a charged excitation we recognize as the electron.

Mathematically, you could write this schematically as:

$$e(x) \sim \int d^4y \, K(x,y)\,\nu_s(y),$$

where the kernel $K$ encodes the hidden dimension or symmetry-breaking that turns neutral sterile states into a charged lepton.

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Why This Is Scientific: A Bound on $g_\nu$

For any new idea to count as physics, it has to face data. Luckily, sterile neutrinos and their self-interactions are already tested indirectly by cosmology and lab experiments.

If sterile neutrinos interact through a new “power boson” with coupling $g_\nu$, then too-strong interactions would ruin the free-streaming of neutrinos in the early universe, leaving fingerprints in the cosmic microwave background.

A conservative calculation shows:

$$g_\nu \lesssim 2\times10^{-9}$$

for light mediators around the eV scale, or else neutrinos would have scattered too much during recombination. More detailed cosmology papers push this bound even lower, down to $10^{-13}$.

That means if electrons are built from sterile neutrinos, the binding mechanism has to respect these very small couplings.

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Why It’s Exciting

• It reframes the electron: not a standalone particle, but an emergent state of hidden neutrino dynamics.

• It connects to cosmology: the same physics that might give rise to electrons also shapes the cosmic microwave background.

• It’s testable: future neutrino scattering experiments, coherent neutrino–nucleus scattering, and precision cosmology can probe the needed couplings.

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Where to Go Next

The idea needs sharpening into a full field-theory model — maybe in the style of preon theories, extra-dimensional holography, or nonlocal condensates. The challenge is explaining how sterile, neutral states can “integrate” into something charged.

But even at this early stage, the hypothesis is scientific: it makes predictions, it faces bounds, and it asks questions that data can answer.