This could be philosophical questions also. What I want to know is: Do electrons, protons, neutrons, quarks, anti-quarks, i.e. all the particles in the standard model, REALLY EXIST??? Or is it the "Best" model to explain the tiny particles (which make the universe) in the Universe??
Although quantum physics says about the probability of particles to be in one place (according to my understand) QP does not say anything about the mass, charge, spin and, basically "existence" of particles, right?? Or am I wrong??
Some people in our country says that knowledge about the universe is "created" and NOT discovered as they say in Western Science?? So, is the standard model and all those particles, including "anti" particles, REALLY just a "model" to explain things or are they "REAL"??? These people really hate Europeans and all they stand for and detest everything European. They say Europeans have forcefully put Western Science down our throats. They say there are "other" views of the universe and other sciences (like Chinese Science, Sri La_nkan Science (I am from Sri L_anka BTW), Indian science etc.) which explain the universe. My problem is that I don't see any other science which does explain the universe. The local anti-Western "intellectuals" here use Buddhists text to explain things about the universe. One of the things they use regularly is the "four-fold" circular system of logic and say Europeans and their science inferior and they don't understand the universe because of their "inferior" "2-fold" linear system of logic.
According to them, knowledge is created respect to the people's religion, culture and sense organs and there is no ABSOLUTE TRUTH but only relative truths. According to them you can create any amount of models (according to them) about the universe and many truths. One of the arguments they bring is the negation of Newton's gravitation lows by Einstein. According to them this is a perfect example to show that knowledge is "created" and not discovered. According to them, Newton "created" his model of the universe (gravitation) and later 200 years later Einstein came and said that is wrong and gave a different model.
My argument is that there won't be an Einstein without Newton and Einstein's "model" is only an extension of Newtons. i.e. you "discover" deeper truth about the universe, rather than creating a new model.
Although these people say there are many sciences, I have not come across any other "science (Indian, Chinese etc.) that explain the universe as Western science. To me there is only one absolute truth and there is only one science (which we called Western science) that is closer to it most. I mean, do Chinese, Indian, Muslim or other have an equivalent to the Standard Model or Quantum physics. They don't do they.
So what exactly are your views on this. Is there or is there not an electron?