Not PARTICLES! QUANTA! Is that really all we can accurately state? I think that to fully understand the details of your hypothesis, I would need a much higher grasp of the fundamentals of Quantum physics than I currently have. — universeness
The basics is easy. Particles do not behave like macroscopic objects but they are the same nonetheless. They hop between an infinity of possible paths. That's the different behavior. But they are just like a rock, concentrated pieces of mass, which are concentrated piece of three massless pieces pure kinetic energy, loaded with three kinds of charge, which give you massive particles like quarks, leptons, and Higgs particles. The three massless preons have to be different from pointlike structures to interact. QFT can assume them pointlike and still get interaction (coupling to the virtual field, as in the Feynman diagram) but it needs renormalisation to do so. The particles themselves are assigned unobservable and
unphysical infinities to accomplish this. Give them a small geometrically induced extension and they can hit one another, keep the Planck length Lorenz invariant (same in each inertial frame), and won't need renormalization. Three hits in one!