Annihilation, fission, and fusion can convert into energy matter. Destruction occurs when an electron and a positron meet. Matter and energy are the same things. They are completely interchangeable.
Virtual particles are the fabric of reality. Spacetime is the fabric of the universe. This fabric is continuous, smooth, and gets curved and deformed by matter and energy.
Force fields, such as the electromagnetic field (EM), have three properties; they are everywhere; they interact with particles according to their charges and continuously propagate in the vacuum. Nature at the quantum level is uncertain. The quantum vacuum is full of virtual particle/antiparticle pairs. They are in and out in a flash. Some of these virtual particles stick around if there is enough resultant energy and mass to be keepers. Matter and motion are always mixing it up. Things end up deterministic unless they don’t. Photons have dual wave/particle abilities. Photons can be virtual particles, depending on the mass-energy content. The cycle of constant emission and absorption of virtual particles is open-ended. Causality and determinism win every time.
The materialist foundation of physics is currently on shaky ground. The distractions of string theory, M- theory, multiverse, parallel universes, etc., waste time, money, and workforce. In the long run, credibility is slip-sliding away.
HOLDING THINGS TOGETHER:
`Fermions are half-spin particles, and they obey the Pauli Exclusion Principle. While bosons are integer spin, they don’t follow the Pauli exclusion principle. Fermions can even become bosons (this is how superfluids form). The crucial difference between the two is their spin or angular momentum. Bosons all have an integer spin of 0, 1, or 2, while fermions have half-integer spins, like 1/2 or 3/2.
Particles with symmetric wave function are Bosons; those with an antisymmetric wave function are Fermions. Only fermions have antiparticle counterparts. Quarks have antiquarks. Fermions and bosons obey different quantum rules. The spin that they maintain allows us to be here.
ALL THINGS ARE TRIUNE, WITH BINARY INTER-ACTIVES:
Quarks experience the strong- force. While leptons do not. It can build composite particles out of fermions. Fermions can’t occupy the same quantum space, but bosons can. When helium has an even number of fermions, it acts like a boson and then becomes a superfluid at a low temperature.
Electrons are fermions. They keep white dwarf stars from collapsing under their gravity. Neutrons are fermions. They prevent neutron stars from collapsing further.
