>>11373863A more apt analogy would be waves that exist on water instead of building blocks making up buildings.
Particles are an outdated concept IMO. When you smash two particles in a collider, other particles that were inside of them aren't popping out, so where do those particles come from then? What causes the energy to manifest into the scaffolding of a discrete particle if only for an instant?
QFT describes the fields which exist whereby energy is transferred into other fields (or scaffolding) during the collision, causing the manifestation of the thing you call particle which is better thought of as a field excitation.
It would be more useful to think of a particle as a stable field excitation such that the energy required to excite the minimum measurable quantity of the field has been met and is in some type of equalibrium.
The point is if you think of them has particles you are ignoring most of QFT and QM and the mechanisms that allow the process or function to be referred to as a particle.
It's like seeing the tip of an iceberg and saying that's all there is to it.
