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That they fit in some category “things” doesn’t make them anything like each other except that we have identified them and can talk about them. There’s a gigantic difference between a quantum field and a material thing.

Everything in the universe is material.

What you call “material thing” is made of quantum fields

“The waves of this fluid get tied into little bundles of energy” – David Tong describing particles of the Standard Model

Quantum fields are material.

Which (superposition of fields) is sort of like what he said, but not really. Why would I listen to you and not him?

There are no scientific authorities, so nobody really knows if there is just 1 field with many largely independent properties, or whether there is a separate field for every force and fundamental particle, or some other combination of fields and properties.

Analytically, we can treat them as a superposition of separate fields.

You can listen to us both when we say that fields are material and standard model particles are made of fields and these fields extend throughout the universe and therefore the vacuum is physical material.

The form of the vacuum is illustrated in the graphic 20 minutes into the video, which is a chaotic sort of bubbling fluid-like physical material.  The form of these fields changes over small scales to make the electrons and quarks that make up ordinary matter.  The form of these fields changes over large scales between objects with electrostatic charge and over distances on the scale of the whole universe in the case of the gravitational field.

If you feel like it, you can go back to #317294

to see how I corrected you on several points and that the video you shared with us supports all my corrections of you.  It is a good video for visualizing concepts that I was already familiar with but thanks for refreshing my memory by linking it here.