Nature's Building Blocks: Fields, Not Particles! #shorts

Added: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]These fluid-like substances, we have a name for.

[00:00:03]We call them fields.

[00:00:05]The best theories that we have of physics do not have underlying them the quark particle and the two quark particle and the the the the sorry, [clears throat] the electron particle and the two quark particles.

[00:00:18]In fact, the very best theories we have of physics don't rely on particles at all.

[00:00:25]The best theories we have tell us that the fundamental building blocks of nature are not particles, but something much more nebulous and abstract. The fundamental building blocks of nature are fluid-like substances which are spread throughout the entire universe and ripple in strange and interesting ways. Okay.

[00:00:49]That's the fundamental reality in in which we live.