Part of the difficulty in that analogy is that we normally think of things as damped by some surrounding media. For particles (modeled as field resonances stori

Part of the difficulty in that analogy is that we normally think of things as damped by some surrounding media. For particles (modeled as field resonances storing quantized spatially concentrated energy) the only damping is coupling to other resonances (e.g. other particles). The particles were created by those interactions and they be annihilated (or decay) into other particles depending on how those resonances couple. Often due to quantization, this requires multiple particles including photons to "transmute" and that combination tends to reduce the likelihood of the interaction. That's my intuition from 30 years ago, anyway.