Do hidden influences give neutrinos their tiny mass?

The quest to understand the small mass of neutrinos is also a quest to discover new particles. Neutrinos are the byproducts of astronomical events that give us life. They shoot out from the nuclear fusion reaction within the sun and radiate from supernovas. They have no charge and curiously little mass. They are the second most abundant particle in the universe (after photons), and trillions of them are passing through your body each moment. Yet so much is still unknown about neutrinos. Among th...