Hi Christian,
Actually, I have read your essay and loved it. Time is short for me now, but I expect to be free in a couple of weeks, and have time for thoughtful comment.
This essay was abstracted from many pieces of my research into neutrino behavior, the most comprehensive being "Dynamic spacetime imposes a matter continuum." It is from that paper that I quoted Einstein:
We conjecture that, having this potential for self-interaction, the beam can create two separable neutrino fields interacting harmonically with the superconducting field. This is a unified field--in the same way that the electrical and magnetic fields are unified in the electromagnetic field--through a simple harmonic oscillation. Suppose the resulting soliton is a quantum (quantum bit). This accounts for Einstein's definition: "One should not think that radiation consists of quanta that do not interact with each other; this would be impossible for an explanation of the interference phenomena. I think of a quantum as a singularity, surrounded by a large vector field. With a large number of quanta a vector field can be composed that differs little from the one we presume for radiation. I can imagine that when the radiation hits a boundary there occurs a separation of the quanta by processes at the boundary, say according to the phase of the resulting field at which the quanta reach the separating surface. The equations for the resulting field would differ little from those of the previous theory."*
* Physikalische Zeitschrift Vol. 10. No. 22, pg. 817 (discussion section)
So I appreciate very much the Sidney Coleman quote, which I was not aware of!
Looking forward to productive dialogue. See you around the quad. :-)
Best,
Tom