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Please be patient.
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When is it my turn with the electron?
You can have it as long as you don't observe it.
don't worry guys I'm keeping track of it it's moving very fast but oh fuck sorry guys my bad
For fuck sake Pauli, stop trying to smush it in the palm of your hand!
No Peter, this isn't an electron, this is the power of the sun
I see, charge is a class method and not an instance method. Well played universe creator.
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second, slightly different electron shows up
universe implodes or something
Na, we got those too. Muons, tauons and neutrinos. But the universe unfortunately hasn't imploded, meaning I have to go to work and pay taxes and shit.
It is an interesting theory, for sure. Instead of countless 3-dimensional particles, you have a single (or very few) 4-dimensional objects. You can imagine it like a sheet of fabric that is our present, with everything above the sheet being the future, everything below the past. When you want to sew a thread (our electron) through the sheet, you need to pierce the fabric, but to do it again, you first need to piece it the other way, giving you a positron. You can create or destroy arbitrary many of these, but you need create or destroy one of each every time. More interestingly, it is exactly determined which two will annihilate each other, as the allegorical loop of thread gets pulled tighter and tighter until it gets pulled though the sheet. The universe would be deterministic.
I'm sure there's a myriad of contradictions to modern QM and particle physics, but it's fun to think about nonetheless
We are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively.
Life is just a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather!
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So if I can destroy 1 electron I destroy every electron?
You would need a positron to do that and all you might have done is reflect it backwards in time.
If you could "remove" it by placing it into another dimension, it might disprove the theory, but the causal domain might be larger then previous assumed.
This is one of those Math Theories that isn't technically a Science Theory. We can make a mathematical model, but it's untestable.
Only in its future. Probably you’d have to find the electron precisely at the end of its timeline.
So I have to destroy 2 electrons to fuck over causality.
How could you destroy 2, if there's only one?
That's why it would fuck over causality. If I destroyed 1 that could be the natural end of the electrons "life" of bouncing back and forth through time. I would need to destroy a 2nd which would then have to be the same electron from earlier in it's timeline.
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If you destroy it, that will be the end of its timeline
To destroy every other quantum state of the single electron, wouldn't you need to destroy it at its beginning state? The end state would be at/just after the heat death of the universe, so it wouldn't really make any difference then.
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Let's try it and find out!
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What a boson.
To his credit, Wheeler did try to make a quantum leap. It just wasn't coherent. If he had kept at it, I'm sure he would have had momentum.
This comment gave me spin
I'm glad you realized the gravity of the situation.
This thread indicates you might have a bit of a strange quark.
Still very charming, though.
All ups, no downs.
I'm out in left field trying to figure out what's happening?
Shouldn't be just electrons though - don't all instances of any given type of subatomic particle have the same mass and charge?
The higher dimensional abstractum of the electron emanates through the multiverse. Electron is.
One reason why that is probably not true is because there are less positrons but if it were true they should number the same as electrons, right?
But if electrons are moving along the same "time direction" as we are and positrons are moving in the opposite "direction" then wouldn't we expect there to be less protons? As we can't measure the protons that already "passed" us? And we would measure more electrons as a some/many/all of the existing electrons are traveling alongside us?
I think you may have put more thought into this than Feynman. But then he probably had someone waiting for him in bed...
I know! Horrible isn't it? I just can't help it, thinking about stuff is actually fun for me... so embarrassing!
It was more a joke about how Feynman had two great loves: physics and fucking. And probably fucking more than physics.
Ah I see ;) I also have two loves, but my gaming pc is too heavy to drag to bed...
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Currently reading Hyperion... Got it, the electron is the Shrike!
Enjoy, it, Hyperion Cantos is far and away my all time favourite read (so far...)
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