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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
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.
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?
Wait, I’m lost. What does it have to do with the amount of protons?
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…
Heavy means he’s too fat to leave you.
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!
This gives me real Egg vibes.
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Shouldn’t be just electrons though - don’t all instances of any given type of subatomic particle have the same mass and charge?
I see, charge is a class method and not an instance method. Well played universe creator.
When is it my turn with the electron?
It already is been again and soon now.
when will now be then?
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’m gonna catch it with chopsticks.
“Hmph! You beginner luck!”
So if I can destroy 1 electron I destroy every electron?
I mean…if energy can not be created nor destroyed, it kind of lends to this hypothesis… 🤔
E=mc2 is the equation for how much energy is created by destroying a given amount of mass.
Do it.
Only in its future. Probably you’d have to find the electron precisely at the end of its timeline.
If you destroy it, that will be 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.
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.
The end state doesn’t have to be at the end of time if the electron can travel backwards in time. It can go to the end, head back towards the beginning, and get destroyed somewhere in between.
Strictly speaking it would have to get destroyed at some point, or at least have something stop it from going back and forth, otherwise the universe would be all electron.
Thanos should have picked a better strategy
You would need a position 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.
Let’s try it and find out!
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…)
Create the parent entity electron, give it properties, then clone as needed
That’s just efficient world design, guys, why make assets different if you don’t gotta, yakno?
Put a new skin on it and everyone thinks it’s a whole different electron.
I’m gonna write a paper about how I think the election is a hat. If we find out where to look, we’ll find the guy wearing it.
Do these skins come in loot boxes? How do I unlock?
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?
Let him cook
Nobody wants to covalent anymore.
Fine, it’ll do it myself
-ThelectronYou have to be bonded and that’s a whole bureaucratic mess.
This is why in general I prefer fission.
So, if route all of the electricity in my house through my body, how far can I travel in time? What about a car battery’s worth?
Sorry, you need 1.21 jiggawats.
I’m going to have to modify my juicer.
Don’t forget to move 66 mph in the direction of the past. Or future, whatever floats your time boat.
What direction is southeast?
What if all I have is a stationary phone? Oh, forgot to say, it’s in a box… and there’s no actual phone.
