From Fields to Particles. If you look closely enough at electromagnetic waves, you'll find that they are made out of particles called photons. The ripples of the electric and magnetic fields get turned into particles when we include the effects of quantum mechanics. In theoretical physics, quantum field theory (QFT) is a theoretical framework that combines classical field theory, special relativity, and quantum mechanics and is used to construct physical models of subatomic particles in particle physics and quasiparticles in condensed matter physics.
As of now the standard model, described correctly by Quantum Field Theory, has 12 fundamental fields for fermions (6 quarks and 6 leptons) and 12 fundamental fields for bosons (8 gluons, 2 for W and Z bosons, 1 for the photon and 1 for the Higgs boson).
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