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Dadface
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It seems to be widely accepted on this forum that fields, not particles, are fundamental. In other words particles are made of fields. I have seen particles described in various ways such as being excitations of fields or eigenstates with known energy.
This creates a problem for high school students, particularly those who have to study the standard model. Should they be told that the electron and some of the other things they study are not really fundamental but are made of fields?
This creates a problem for high school students, particularly those who have to study the standard model. Should they be told that the electron and some of the other things they study are not really fundamental but are made of fields?