How do neutrinos work? – Neodymium Zone

Question: How do neutrinos work?
- Keywords:
  neutrino,
  particle,
  subatomic
Asked by to Naomi, Mathew, Edward on 24 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
- Edward Hughes answered on 24 Jun 2014:
  
  Great question. Neutrinos are electrically neutral, very light particles. They are like the less exciting cousins of electrons. They are produces during radioactive decay processes, because of something called the weak force.
  
  Actually we haven’t got a perfect theory of neutrinos. For a long time people thought that they had no mass at all! If that were true, they would have fitted neatly into the famous Standard Model of particles. Unfortunately we’ve recently found out that neutrinos have a mass, so we need a better theory. People have come up with lots of great ideas, but nobody knows which one is right.

Question: How do neutrinos work?