Why Do We Exist?

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”Particles, in fact, don’t exist. Consider, for example, a particle we all know and love, the electron. They’re all the same. You know if you produced an electron on the other side of the universe, and you brought it here and compared it with an electron, they’re the same. Not in the same way that you pick up two red billiard balls and say, ’These are pretty similar.’ We say they’re identical. This is because the electron as a separate, distinct entity…doesn’t really exist, they are merely bumps in something called ’field,’ which is a property of space and time. And if it’s true for the fundamental particles in nature, it’s true for everything that they make up, including us. And so at some level, we don’t exist.”

Physicist Steve Biller
Tutorial Fellow in experimental particle physics, Mansfield College, University of Oxford, England

http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/profiles/film-review-the-nature-of-existence