The Theory That There Is Only One Electron in the Universe
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Re: The Theory That There Is Only One Electron in the Universe
#2If there were really only one electron, somebody in the universe would have broken it by now. Or maybe there is a great filter prohibiting any intelligence capable of poking too hard.
Re: The Theory That There Is Only One Electron in the Universe
#3...and Wheeler stole it from Stueckelberg.
Re: The Theory That There Is Only One Electron in the Universe
#4If there were really only one electron, somebody in the universe would have broken it by now. Or maybe there is a great filter prohibiting any intelligence capable of poking too hard.
Ah, but because it moves backwards and forwards in time, (the positrons are that same electron going backwards in time), even if it does get broken, you wouldn’t know.
Re: The Theory That There Is Only One Electron in the Universe
#5If there were really only one electron, somebody in the universe would have broken it by now. Or maybe there is a great filter prohibiting any intelligence capable of poking too hard.
Quantum immortality. In the universe branches we've screwed with that electron we exploded and disappeared.
Re: The Theory That There Is Only One Electron in the Universe
#6Its more a reinterpretation than a different theory because all computations are still the same. There are no alternative predictions for any measurable quantities.
Re: The Theory That There Is Only One Electron in the Universe
#7Are there really electrons? Or does observable phenomena simply fit with the theory of electrons?
Re: The Theory That There Is Only One Electron in the Universe
#8...and Wheeler stole it from Stueckelberg.
Looked him up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Stueckelberg
So update meme: "publish in a major journal or languish"
Re: The Theory That There Is Only One Electron in the Universe
#9Are there really electrons? Or does observable phenomena simply fit with the theory of electrons?
If theory bounding the observer's sense-making apparatus does not refute the electron, then make of it what you will.
Re: The Theory That There Is Only One Electron in the Universe
#10Another fun electron hypothesis, also unlikely: