If it doesn't depart too much from the analogy, what is the lake (water below the surface, under the field) and what is above the field?
Are we supposed to assume that the water below the surface is inside the field, and above the surface is outside of the field?
What is the non-exceptional form of the particle, or thing that makes up the particle? I guess this is the essence of your analogy, and your point is that we've spent so much time trying to identify this thing as a particle, we can't yet answer this question?
Or have I now dissolved the analogy by taking it too literally?
The field is the "deeper truth", the particles are the second hand tidbits of information, it's like trying to understand marriage only from the jokes instead of marriage itself.
If it doesn't depart too much from the analogy, what is the lake (water below the surface, under the field) and what is above the field?
Are we supposed to assume that the water below the surface is inside the field, and above the surface is outside of the field?
What is the non-exceptional form of the particle, or thing that makes up the particle? I guess this is the essence of your analogy, and your point is that we've spent so much time trying to identify this thing as a particle, we can't yet answer this question?
Or have I now dissolved the analogy by taking it too literally?