Neutrino Oscillations As Internal Mode Interference In The Vacuum Pressure Field

Neutrino oscillations are among the most firmly established phenomena in experimental particle physics, yet their conventional interpretation relies on the introduction of extremely small neutrino masses, flavor eigenstates, and empirical mixing parameters whose physical origin remains unclear.

This work proposes an alternative ontological and dynamical interpretation within the framework of Quarkbase Cosmology, in which the neutrino is identified as the most elementary compactation (N = 1) of a continuous vacuum pressure field (Ψ-field). Neutrino oscillations are reinterpreted as interference between internal vibrational modes of a single fundamental entity propagating coherently through this medium, rather than as transitions between distinct massive particles.

The framework reproduces the main observed phenomenology—including L/E scaling, the existence of two independent oscillation scales, long-range coherence, and matter effects—without introducing intrinsic neutrino masses, fundamental flavor labels, or a PMNS mixing matrix as ontological primitives. Standard parameters are recovered as effective descriptors of mode dispersion and interaction geometry.

The manuscript explicitly states its scope as a preliminary ontological–dynamical framework rather than a completed field-theoretic formulation, and it outlines clear, falsifiable predictions that distinguish this interpretation from mass-based models, particularly at extreme energies, long baselines, and in nonstandard environments.