Why particles might not exist | Sabine Hossenfelder, Hilary Lawson?

Particles might be more like invisible building blocks that we see only when they act like bricks, but maybe they're not actually solid things.

Imagine you have a big box full of tiny, invisible marbles. When you shake the box, you can count how many marbles hit the sides, kind of like counting particles in an experiment. But if you look really closely, you might see that these marbles are just parts of something bigger, like water flowing through a sponge.

When scientists use tools to watch what's happening, they sometimes act like kids stacking blocks. They say: “Look! A particle!”, but maybe it’s not really there. It might just be part of something else that behaves like a block when you look at it from far away.

Sometimes, scientists are like detectives looking for clues. They think they’ve found a particle, but the real story is more complicated, maybe those marbles in the box are just pretending to be solid.