X-Message-Number: 21100 From: Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 13:51:41 EST Subject: Re: CryoNet #21066 Electron --part1_e6.359a17c5.2b76abbd_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit James Swayze said: > This is so because if indeed only one electron exists or that all are > identical > then a change to one would mean a change to all. This would negate the > usefulness > of using them for information storage because even across the galaxy, nay > the > whole universe, someone could read your data simply by checking one of > their > local electrons. the one electron story come it seems from Richard Feynman: One night, he played his favorite bongo, the telephone interupted him. This was a call from John Archibald Wheeler who said: "I know why all electrons are identical, there is only one in all the Universe! It was created in the Big Bang and lived until the end of the Universe in the Big Crunch. It was then reflected back in time as a positon and stayed so until the Big Bang. Here it was reflected again in forwards time so there was two electrons at any instant between the Big Bang and the Big Crunch. The ping pong game continued between Bang and Crunch so we see many electrons at the same time. This was a strict interpretation of Dirac's quantum equation, we know now that it suffers from some problems fixed by the Klein Gordon equation, itself patched by the Dual theory, rescued by supersymetry, saved by super strings, extended by super branes completed by the M theory. There is no proof of the Big Crunch, some as Stephen Hawkings don't give credit to the Big Bang itself... The modern interpretation is that for each particle kind there is a field, for example the electron field. Nearly everywhere that field is smooth, but at some points it is not and there is a field singularity, what we call a particle. In the mathemathical branch called topology, there is a domain dealing with field defects. Asking : Is there different electrons? is in fact asking: Is the electron field endowed with more than one defect species in topology? It seems there is only one zero dimensional defect, so anything else would be at least string-like. This was suggested by J.A. Wheeler in 1978 in his Solway paper: The substructure of electrons would be strings with ten time the electrical charge of the electron. These strings are not "super": they would remain in the four dimensions of space-time without use of the four "half dimensions" of the super symetry model. All average electrons would be identical, but many informations could be encoded at the string level. The experience done on the wave function of the electron is another subject. Here, the electron is not a point-like particle, it is smeared by the electromagnetics field of an atom. The information is encoded in the different quantum levels of the potential pit of the atom, not in the electron itself. Yvan Bozzonetti. --part1_e6.359a17c5.2b76abbd_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=21100