Why Are Neutrinos So Confusing?

[BkBkBk]

I am having real problems fitting nuetrinos into my mental models of the world,when i think of strong,electromagnetic and gravitational interactions i find it much easier to work with because there's always something tangible i can relate it to,fermions,light or falling for example,but when i try to fit the weak interaction in i get lost,is there a weak field? how far can W and Z bosons travel?what are the nuetrinos doing all this time if not interacting,do they intereact with each other ,do superposition rules apply to them?if so can they be made coherent? every time i try to fit them in i feel lost,does anyone else have such problems fitting them into their pictures of the world?

when i first read of them,the nuetron intercations seemed quite simple,the idea of a nuetrino causing flavour change then spitting out an electron and anti nuetrino seemed fine,but the more i learn of them the less they make any sense to me,are they just the different between the energies exchanged in the interaction,please help me I am lost!

is there a starting place you guys would suggest for getting them more under my control,books i should read etc?

 

[Dmitry67]

Big relief – I was afraid that there was a new sort of neutrino discovered: 3 known flavors, then sterile, then stupid :)

 

[Medium9]

Well, we already have strange quarks... why not? :D

 

[strangerep]

is there a starting place you guys would suggest for getting them more under my control,books i should read etc?

When the unhelpful jokers have departed, you could perhaps try (re?)-reading the sticky
thread in this forum entitled "Elementary particles presented". There's lots of
references to relevant sources therein.