# A Particle Is Just A Quantum Of A Field like a photon. It carries electromagnetic field but there is the photoelectric effect. So it is easier to understand if you think electromagnetic field is quantized and a photon is a quanta of electromagnetic field. Of course you can just use wave-particle duality. But it is much simpler if you think there are only quantized fields and their energies in the cosmos. We call a quanta of a field a particle. It does not exist independently. Also it is much simpler to deal with relativity if you just think speeds of field propagations should be less than the speed of light . Dealing with general relativity is still hard though since time is relative in that case. Summary: Schwinger was totally right and Aristotle was better than Democritos. Atomism is a myth. The cosmos is full of fields. Not the void with atoms.