Full Idea
The world is not made up of fields and particles, but of a single type of entity: the quantum field. There are no longer particles which move in space with the passage of time, but quantum fields whose elementary events happen in spacetime.
Gist of Idea
The world consists of quantum fields, with elementary events happening in spacetime
Source
Carlo Rovelli (Reality is Not What it Seems [2014], 04)
Book Reference
Rovelli,Carlo: 'Reality is Not What it Seems', ed/tr. Carnell/Segre [Penguin 2016], p.110
A Reaction
If you are not a scientist, there is (I find) a strong tendency to read and digest stuff like this, and then forget it the next day, because it so far from our experience. Folk like me have to develop two parallel views of the nature of reality.