>The one-electron universe is the hypothesis that all electrons and positrons are actually manifestations of a single entity moving backwards and forwards in time. It was proposed by theoretical physicist John Wheeler in a telephone call to Richard Feynman in the spring of 1940. A similar "zigzag world line description of pair annihilation" was independently devised by E. C. G. Stueckelberg at the same time.>Feynman was struck by Wheeler's insight that antiparticles could be represented by reversed world lines, and credits this to Wheeler, saying in his Nobel speech:>I received a telephone call one day at the graduate college at Princeton from Professor Wheeler, in which he said, "Feynman, I know why all electrons have the same charge and the same mass" "Why?" "Because, they are all the same electron! (...) I did not take the idea that all the electrons were the same one from [Wheeler] as seriously as I took the observation that positrons could simply be represented as electrons going from the future to the past in a back section of their world lines. That, I stole!"[2]>Feynman later proposed this interpretation of the positron as an electron moving backward in time in his 1949 paper "The Theory of Positrons".[3] Yoichiro Nambu later applied it to all production and annihilation of particle-antiparticle pairs, stating that "the eventual creation and annihilation of pairs that may occur now and then, is no creation nor annihilation, but only a change of directions of moving particles, from past to future, or from future to past."[4]
Unless there's experimental evidence I'm not interested.
Physicists are retarded
>>16869203>every electron is the same if we ignore all of their differenceswow modern physics is just filled with philosophical gems
>>16869203I feel bad for actually reading all of that.
>>16869203Wheeler had a masterclass on trolling right there. The point was you can make any suitable story to fit together into some mathematical abstraction and it has nothing to do with what is actually going on.Feynman being a chad just yoinked it from him and sent the meme into the stratosphere. It is almost exactly like schrodingers pussy.
>>16869217>Unless there's experimental evidence I'm not interested.There is though? It's literally a model created to explain experimental evidence.What you meant to bitch about was falsifiability.Incidentally, it is falsifiable as explained since there's more electrons than positrons.
If electrons have no mountains, no distinguishable landmarks or features that differentiate one electron, from another, no difference in diameter, or indications of tilt, rotation, angle, then they are all indistinguishable from one another.The quantity is greater than 1 as we know that Planck length and Planck time are the smallest units inside of our universe. To have a single electron transport from location to location would require a time slice quantity greater than the number of base building blocks (the quantity is Pi).
>>16869322Valid point.
