Don't try to understand transistors in concepts you're familiar with, such as cars and bananas. A transistor is neither a car, nor a banana. You have to have a new kind of understanding, one that transcends such mundane, familiar concepts.
Get it?
Feynman explained nothing by saying that particles are "not like" two other familiar concepts. That's flipping two bits in an infinite set of to "false". You can't gain understanding by flipping all but one remaining bit in that infinite set to false! Particles aren't like tiny springs either, or tiny metronomes, or tiny bolts of lightning, or... an infinite list of things they aren't!
Similarly, Feynman's Path Integral method is trotted out as a mental model of how particles "work" at the Quantum Level, but this is literally just a mathematical trick for solving a class of problems efficiently. This is not my opinion, Feynman said so. It's not a "model of the world", it is literally just a specific case of Monte Carlo Integration!
Get it?
Feynman explained nothing by saying that particles are "not like" two other familiar concepts. That's flipping two bits in an infinite set of to "false". You can't gain understanding by flipping all but one remaining bit in that infinite set to false! Particles aren't like tiny springs either, or tiny metronomes, or tiny bolts of lightning, or... an infinite list of things they aren't!
Similarly, Feynman's Path Integral method is trotted out as a mental model of how particles "work" at the Quantum Level, but this is literally just a mathematical trick for solving a class of problems efficiently. This is not my opinion, Feynman said so. It's not a "model of the world", it is literally just a specific case of Monte Carlo Integration!