• cally [he/they]
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    178 months ago

    second, slightly different electron shows up

    universe implodes or something

    • @[email protected]
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      138 months ago

      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.

  • Lovable Sidekick
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    198 months ago

    Shouldn’t be just electrons though - don’t all instances of any given type of subatomic particle have the same mass and charge?

    • @[email protected]
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      138 months ago

      Life is just a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here’s Tom with the weather!

      • Iron Lynx
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        18 months ago

        Sorry mate, Tom couldn’t make it, so here we have Bill.

        Weather update: it’s raining rocks from outer space

    • @[email protected]
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      148 months ago

      Only in its future. Probably you’d have to find the electron precisely at the end of its timeline.

        • @[email protected]
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          18 months ago

          Careful, reality might just destroy you instead to avoid the paradox. I suspect that’s how it avoids all of the paradoxes if time travel is possible in a single timeline universe. And this idea isn’t compatible with the multiple timeline time travel idea (otherwise the electron will end up in a different timeline each time it jumps backwards).

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            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.

            • @[email protected]
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              Ah, you’re viewing it as a timetravellers’ dilemma.

              My view was more that we’re an observer in the lagrangian solution to the differential equation we call life. The electron, being a constant in the equation. Remove the electron, you alter the equation, therefore destroying known life.

      • @[email protected]
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        38 months ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          28 months ago

          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.

    • @[email protected]
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      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.

    • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ
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      18 months ago

      I mean…if energy can not be created nor destroyed, it kind of lends to this hypothesis… 🤔

      • @[email protected]
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        18 months ago

        E=mc2 is the equation for how much energy is created by destroying a given amount of mass.

        • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ
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          No, E=mc2 demonstrates that mass and energy are one in the same. When converting mass to energy, nothing is being destroyed, merely changing state. As far as we are aware, the absolute destruction or removal of energy, and thereby matter, from the Universe is not possible.

  • @[email protected]
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    138 months ago

    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?

      • @[email protected]
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        18 months ago

        Positrons are different from protons. Both have a positive charge, but a positron is an elementary particle of a similar mass as an electron. They are rather rare in nature which OP was noting. Protons are made of three elementary particles, much heavier than positrons, and are, I imagine, present in nature in about the same order of magnitude as electrons.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      158 months ago

      I think you may have put more thought into this than Feynman. But then he probably had someone waiting for him in bed…

      • @[email protected]
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        108 months ago

        I know! Horrible isn’t it? I just can’t help it, thinking about stuff is actually fun for me… so embarrassing!

        • Flying SquidOP
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          128 months ago

          It was more a joke about how Feynman had two great loves: physics and fucking. And probably fucking more than physics.

  • @[email protected]
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    178 months ago

    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?

  • Psychadelligoat
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    358 months ago

    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?

    • Flying SquidOP
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      108 months ago

      Put a new skin on it and everyone thinks it’s a whole different electron.

      • @[email protected]
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        48 months ago

        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.

      • Lemminary
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        48 months ago

        Do these skins come in loot boxes? How do I unlock?

  • @[email protected]
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    38 months ago

    The higher dimensional abstractum of the electron emanates through the multiverse. Electron is.