Quantum mechanics: coordinates as ingredients…
The very unusual thing about quantum mechanics is that we learned synthesis is nothing more, and nothing less, than just searching for a set of space-time coordinates to which the synthesized matter is visible. When you bake a pizza, you're not actually changing it from an uncooked pizza to a cooked one. What you're doing is hiding the uncooked pizza while simultaneously searching for a pizza which is cooked, and then finding it. Reducing “ingredients” down, one does not get to discreet particles. The ingredients are not matter — the ingredients are coordinates. – Rico Roho