Is our universe made of particles as a house is made of bricks, but by accident not design? If so, matter could be based on fundamental particles, that aren’t made of other particles. We expect such particles, like chess pieces, to just sit there until moved, not act on their own, but ants placed on a chess board immediately crawl about of their own accord, which isn’t like particles at all.
Is our universe then based on particles that move when pushed or entities that move themselves? It seems to be the latter, as light always moves, as do electrons, and neutrinos that whizz about everywhere unseen. Photons, electrons, and neutrinos are all said to be fundamental, but they are active entities not passive particles.
Particles also go where they are put, but where a photon hits a screen isn’t determined by the forces acting on it, as it chooses where it strikes from the possibilities. Calling this random doesn’t disguise the fact that the photon itself decides where it arrives, as do electrons, neutrinos, and quarks, which again implies a world of active entities not passive particles.
But how can a universe be built from bricks that constantly move and choose where they arrive? The alternative is that it wasn’t built but evolved, based on its own nature. If one photon began our universe of stars and galaxies, it grew rather than was built, like a seed that starts small and becomes big. What then defined the nature of that seed?