A student draws a parallel between the teacher's description and the Higgs field from physics. The teacher cautions against equating direct experience with any scientific explanation.
A student draws a parallel between the teacher's description and the Higgs field from physics. The teacher cautions against equating direct experience with any scientific explanation.
What you were describing just now is called the Higgs field. The scientist is called Higgs, and it's the field. Once quarks attach to it, they intertwine, and forms emerge: ultimately particles, then atoms. Strip all of that away, and what remains, pervasive anywhere, everywhere, even in space, even in a vacuum, is the Higgs field.
I understand what you're saying, but that is just theory. It's science explaining. I would say no, that's not what we are. It could serve as a metaphor that works for you for a while, but it's not what we are. Anything you say "that's what we are" is not it.