Thank you, Pat, I had the feeling we were in agreement on this, but I understand that words can sometimes get the best of us. Thank you!
I'll leave the "intelligent" part of the equation up in the air, but in general I would say that where one is selfish, the other may as a reaction smart up sooner or later.
I think we are in agreement, Graham, but maybe I am bumping into what Felix kind of pointed out that pictures can tell a thousand words. Or said differently: words can be confusing. Still, pictures are confusing too, because one problem with the pictures I created is that I could only fit so much information in each picture. The neutron sphere with the twelve positions that the proton can take in, for instance, I could only put the twelve
remainder-sets in there, not the two up-quarks accompanying each of them — otherwise we couldn't have even seen anything intelligible in the image.
In this image you can see the same picture of before but shrunk in place, and with a single set of the proton
remainder-set in one of its specific positions enlarged together with its two up-quarks (spheres) to the right. The two up-quarks were not visualized in the previous picture to avoid clutter. Here is the fun part: the two -1/6th charge
remainder-parts are in control of the two much larger spheres.
Each
remainder-part has a -1/6th charge, but each can either borrow the same amount from the other
remainder-part — or change the overall charge of the sphere at its side at will. So, the two spheres end up in conflict with each other, having to deal with deal with each other as basically the same, but one being of a different charge than the other all of a sudden; sparks then fly from one to the other (and vice versa). By 'cleverly' using their ability of being malleable, the
remainder-parts make the spheres be amenable all the way up to where they can go. It is like two dogs fighting for a bone, and the third one walking away with it. Of course, the third is one of the two
remainder-parts, while the bone is the other
remainder-part.
As said before, the spark keeps the neutron in place.