Extremely low interaction
Particle physics struggles to explain how neutrinos exhibit such minimal interaction with other matter. A common explanation put forward is the insensitivity of neutrinos to the strong force and the electromagnetic force. Additionally, neutrinos are known for their extremely small mass, making them less sensitive to gravity. This leaves us with the primary interaction of neutrinos: the weak force. However, the effectiveness of the weak force is confined to extremely short distances, rightly earning its name. The combination of these factors is thought to explain the fact that neutrinos can pass through matter almost unhindered. Calculations suggest that a block of lead with a thickness of one light-year (9.5 trillion km) is needed to stop half of the neutrinos fired at it. But does this explanation hold true? According to these arguments, photons should exhibit even less interaction with matter than neutrinos. However, this is not the case. Photons, in fact, have a high degree of interaction.
In terms of relation physics, neutrinos simply aren’t often suitable candidates for exchanging information with other matter. They are, however, a good match for photons. It is the interactions with photons that can create the (unstable) variants electron-neutrino, muon-neutrino, and tau-neutrino. Refer to section 6.24 on 2nd and 3rd generation fermions for more information.
The role that neutrinos play in the weak force is explained in the ‘weak force’ section. This interaction either disconnects information from fermions or adds it to fermions, via the mediation of neutrinos or antineutrinos. This process gives rise to new particles and releases energy or adds mass.
Only left-handed neutrinos and right-handed antineutrinos
Particle physics lacks an explanation for the absence of right-handed neutrinos and left-handed antineutrinos. However, in terms of relation physics, neutrinos, with their two fixed relations, are too simply constructed to create both left-handed and right-handed variants in conjunction with the unidirectional development of the universe. Chirality is not an objective property. The concept only holds meaning for an observer. Because a neutrino has only two arms – two fixed entanglements – one of these can establish a relation with the observer. Subsequently, the other, influenced by the developmental direction of the universe, can exhibit only one type of behavior. We have termed this left-handed for matter, and right-handed for antimatter.
Where do neutrinos get their mass from?
Based on theories from particle physics, neutrinos should not have mass because obtaining mass from the Brout-Englert-Higgs field (also known as the Higgs mechanism or Higgs field) requires the existence of both left-handed and right-handed neutrinos. The Higgs field is a hypothetical energy field that should exist to make The Standard Model of Particle Physics work, but there are no right-handed neutrinos. Yet, neutrinos should indeed have mass to solve the ‘solar neutrino problem’. Neutrino oscillation, a superposition of different generations of neutrinos with different masses, is proposed to explain this problem. And for that……mass is required. Voilà, a giant paradox. Scientists are now on the hunt for right-handed neutrinos. But whether they will succeed…?
Relation physics does not need the Higgs field to explain ‘mass’. It relates mass to complexity and a more complicated way of redistributing information. A neutrino is more complex than a photon and consequently has ‘mass’.