How can neutrinos be produced in the center of the sun and how can they be detected in laboratories here on earth if they are subject neither to the strong force nor to the electromagnetic one?
Another force, the so-called weak force, is responsible. The electron neutrino does participate in that interaction, along with the electron.
- Murray Gell-Mann, as mentioned in the 1994 book titled The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex