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Just flipping through one of my many easy reading books...
Paul Davies 'About Time', 1995, Penguin p. 206...
'(John) Wheeler proposed that all the electrons in the universe are really one and the same particle, simply bouncing back and forth in time...'
'This offers a neat explanation for why all electrons appear to be identical'
I have no idea how this came about and would love to know.
In what way did he mean identical? I don't get it?
Is/was there a more technical forumlation for this that made any predictions?
I couldn't find the reference and I probably wouldn't be able to follow it as written anyhow.
Has it been completely disgarded as an idea at any level? If so what was the clincher?
The Feynman diagram for electron-positron interaction (sorry, can't manage to
replicate it here!) indicates that 'the same electron' appears in two places at once?
What about spin?
I think that's more than enough...
Paul Davies 'About Time', 1995, Penguin p. 206...
'(John) Wheeler proposed that all the electrons in the universe are really one and the same particle, simply bouncing back and forth in time...'
'This offers a neat explanation for why all electrons appear to be identical'
I have no idea how this came about and would love to know.
In what way did he mean identical? I don't get it?
Is/was there a more technical forumlation for this that made any predictions?
I couldn't find the reference and I probably wouldn't be able to follow it as written anyhow.
Has it been completely disgarded as an idea at any level? If so what was the clincher?
The Feynman diagram for electron-positron interaction (sorry, can't manage to
replicate it here!) indicates that 'the same electron' appears in two places at once?
What about spin?
I think that's more than enough...