One-Electron Universe

29 points | by pella an hour ago

10 comments

  • stared 8 minutes ago

    In the line, I recommend „The Egg” by Andy Weir https://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

  • mvlipwig 7 minutes ago

    This might be a result of me not understanding theoretical physics, but this seems "not even wrong." How could you even go about testing this?

  • abeppu 26 minutes ago

    Even if there were as many positions as electrons in the universe, I don't get the time-reversed character at a macro level. When leaving antimatter out of the picture, I dimly understand that the arrow of the arises from entropy. If time reversed particles are antiparticles, shouldn't we sometimes see a diffuse cloud of antiparticles in a lab spontaneously condense into a very low entropy concentrated configuration?

  • lolakutty 17 minutes ago

    Space and time are illusions. So probably true in some sense...There is probably no electron at all...I mean, one would be quite arbitrary, why not two?

  • edgyquant an hour ago

    I always loved this as it seems to be a more modern way of interpreting the monad. Could it not be the case that all particles are actually just one thing that is not subject to time and that our reality is a snapshot of a matrix of its different potentials?

  • diablomablo 21 minutes ago

    My thought is that if there's only one electron, then its probabilistic location at a place and a time, should be impacted by its own energy across all places and times. That quantum gravity comes from generalizing the Schrodinger's equation to include these energies in the phase of the wave function, causing the phase to skew and the probability to update towards the location of large mass/energies.

  • amelius an hour ago

    This theory adds more complications than it creates simplifications.

  • api 4 minutes ago

    Another interesting one is the black hole electron: the electron as a stable micro black hole, possibly super-extremal.

    Probably not, but apparently some of the math does work.

    There's been some attempts to model all particles as micro black holes or stable quantum scale gravitational objects of some kind.

  • netbioserror 44 minutes ago

    Then wouldn't it be "one-photon"? I've heard (but don't fully understand) that massed particles are simply photons trapped in toroidal vortices, which gives them an outward charge field and lets them interact with the Higgs. Annihilation supposedly just being untangling the toroid.

  • staplung an hour ago

    “One electron ought to be enough for everyone.”