The field is the sole governing agency of the particle

Is it merely cheesy pop pseudo science …

“The field is the sole governing agency of the particle.” Since Einstein uses the term particle to represent “matter,” he is acknowledging that the field controls our physical reality.

… or a somewhat useful intermediate abstraction on the way to more precise understanding …

“Epigenetics has become much more interesting because it allows us to look at how gene expression is changed by environmental events, explainable in part by histone modifications.”