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definition of a particle?

i have been thinking about this thing for a while.

seeing how fields are always not well defined approaching the position of a particle, perhaps a particle can be defined as a discontinuity of field (any kind of force field)

but then.... a photon, there is no discontinuity of electromagnetic field. perhaps this is something different.

as I am not so good with quantum mechanics... knowing that position is not very well defined, the position of the "discontinuity" wouldn't be very well defined as well....

What other ways can a person detect/define a particle otherwise? besides observing severe distortion of force fields? hmm.... and how would a person observe a particle without another particle? if a particle is only well defined in relation with another particle, what does it mean?


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