There are approximately fifteen fields, whose quanta are the elementary particles (electrons, quarks, muons, neutrinos, Higgs, and little else), plus a few fields similar to the electromagnetic one, which describe electromagnetic force and the other forces operating at a nuclear scale, whose quanta are similar to the photons.
This is the strong and weak neuclear forces, possibly a metaphor for realative and absolute truth... Or Einstein's special and general theories of relativity?
