[gpsx]

I have another definition, or at least this is how I think of it. I’m not sure many people would buy into it. In the standard model, the fermions are particles, like the electrons, quarks, neutrinos. Electroweak, strong force, gravity are fields. This means the photon is not a particle, but just a field excitation. I know people can think of fermions as fields, I just think of them as particles.

[skzv]

Aren't you describing quantum field theory (QFT)?

Anyway, what exactly is a field besides a mathematical object? What is it made of?

[gpsx]

I did study quantum field theory and I have a hard time viewing a fermion as a continuous field, whereas a gauge field I do view as a continuous field. I view a fermion as a true point particle, kind of like it is in a lattice. The fermion still has a wave function of course. It is very different from the wave function of a gauge field. The wave function of an electric field is a wave function over field configurations. The fermion wave function is a wave function of fermion spins. I don't think this is an unreasonable view, but I am not trying to force it on anyone else.

[dandragona]

I'm still new to learning about these things, but is the viewpoint that a particle is a field excitation sort of the thing about starting with a lattice in the ground state with a field defined on the points of the lattice, then some excitations happen which cause the field to enter a particular "mode". This mode is the particle?

[arcbyte]

Checkout energywavetheory.com. It's essential the Aether, but really makes you think.

[jiggawatts]

I flipped through some of the content. It's very well presented, but unfortunately it is pseudo-science gibberish.