Are Particles Theoretically Tangible?

[JairCrawford]

Ask Ant Man?

The properties we associate with matter are bulk properties. Gold is shiny, can be felt, etc.

At the quantum level, there are just interactions, ensembles in superposition, and the probability for measured properties. By the time we measure anything from the quantum level, an interaction has occurred where the quantum level information has been multiplied and reified into something macroscopic.

So, no, thinking of "touching" a quark doesn't have much meaning.

See I’m hearing what you’re saying, but I’m having a hard time conceptualising it. I guess I have a hard time breaking away from imagining the smallest parts as physical “building blocks”, conceptually. I have a hard time imagining everything being made of something that’s not tangible. But I guess if quarks were tangible, we’d eventually be asking what makes them, and so on and so forth.