Matter is in my opinion neither discrete nor continuos but a unity of the two aspects. Each thing is a whole - each thing is continuos and discontinuous. Maybe, you like this more than contradictory reality. If it is only forgetting them, the wholeness is a merely transient one. Materialism - Idealism Please don't confuse dialectical materialism with mechanical materialism.
Dialectical materialism differs from mechanical i.e. in the question of things and processes.
Thinking of physicist determines his doing as subject. These material things interact with material quantum-things, and we see particles or waves. All talk about quantum-vagueness is not a proof of idealism. It is not new that all is connected with all. Dialectic is talking about all-connectedness.