[beezlebroxxxxxx]

It's kind of useful to only think of these things as "particles" in a nominal sense. You need to adopt a "quantum imagination". I tend to think of them as a wave or field of probabilities of energy. It sounds weird, but similar to "spin", "flavour" describes a particular relationship between waves or fields of probabilities of energy as it moves through space over time.

A simplified summary: The discovered mass emerges out of this relationship between detection and probability.

[tines]

This is making it sound way more complicated than it is. Sibling comment is much better. Thing changes over time -> thing experiences time -> it's not going the speed of light -> it has mass.

[wasting_time]

And a nuance that is easily lost: the different neutrino eigenstates/flavors travel at different velocities, because they have different mass, so the probability of detecting one flavor depends on the distance travelled.

Essentially each neutrino travels in three different "waves", but is still one unit in a constant superposition between the three.