>... > However, in the end I think that physics will want to keep up the > appearance > of verbal continuity is its description of fundamental particles, even if > they are non-particles. > ...
It's not only a matter of "verbal continuity". Five hundred years of materialism will not dissappear with the discovery of a new "particle", independently of how elusive, "virtual" or "etheric" it could be. By the way, neutrinos and "virtual particles" are the ghost haunters of scientists. Not to talk about dark energy and dark matter, the two modern "obscurum per obscurius" twins, the heralds of obscurantism.
