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From: markb@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Mark Biggar)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Questions about fundamental constants, gravity, electrons
Message-ID: <2258@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 17:12:40 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 15 17:12:40 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 22:32:57 EDT
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Reply-To: markb@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Mark Biggar)
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Summary: 

In article <495@sri-arpa.ARPA> pduff%ti-eg.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa writes:
>   I've heard that there may only be one electron in the whole universe,
>which explains why all of the electrons we observe have exactly the same
>charge and mass.  Does anyone understand how one gets the observed universe
>which appears to have *lots* of electrons from just one particle?  What 
>about the two electron spin states, and positrons (just one anti-electron 
>in the whole universe?)?  Or is the one-electron theory full of holes
>(sorry about that--I couldn't resist!)?

It Goes like this:  It has been suggested that an anti-particle is just a
normal particle going backwards in time.  For example if you show a movie
of an electron curving in a magnetic field backward it would lokk just
like a movie of a positron in the same field going forward.  Thus there is
only one electron looping through time so we see it many times.

Mark Biggar
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