[svachalek]

As a non-physicist, my understanding is that they actually exist, but can't be thought of as flying around like ping pong balls. I think it's one of those things that comes down to interpretation though, where the math is very clear but how you think of what it "means" lies beyond science.

[dbetteridge]

Went on a slight rabbit hole reading after posting this and seems like we're all just excitations in a stack of quantum fields :-D