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Re: The Theory That There Is Only One Electron in the Universe

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Post by BlueTemplar » Sat, Apr 20, 2024, 3:21 PM UTC

jrumbut wrote: post #40

Vt71fcAqt7 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think GP's qiestion dates back to earlier than postmodern philosophy.

Is Platonic realism valid? I need to know before I plug in this toaster.

A bit like for Marxism, so many schools tried to claim that name, with a messy history, it's hard to even know what you mean by that :

https://samzdat.com/2018/01/26/platonism-without-plato/

Re: The Theory That There Is Only One Electron in the Universe

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Post by spacebacon » Mon, Apr 22, 2024, 2:50 AM UTC

Maybe our known universe truly is a single electron behaving similar to scan lines on a TV at Planck scale in a higher dimension. Planck is the hz rate in this parable.

Re: The Theory That There Is Only One Electron in the Universe

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Post by GoblinSlayer » Mon, Apr 22, 2024, 10:32 AM UTC

sidewndr46 wrote: post #83

GoblinSlayer wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's true about all particles is also true about electron. There's also the myth that not all particles are equal.

Maybe I don't follow the consequence of your statement, but isn't the photon quite different from an electron? It has no mass & has no anti particle that we can identify. It's also an elementary particle that doesn't get combined like quarks to make the proton

That's the myth I refer to. Antiphoton exists, it's just symmetric enough and the same as photon.