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nul@programming.dev 5 weeks agoThis is actually the first time I’m hearing about single electron theory, but I feel validated now that I’m learning about it. I have for a long time believed that the universe is made of a single photon, since photons exist outside of time. Then, if electrons are made of a “pair” of entangled photons, since every photon is the same photon, it would follow that every electron is also the same electron. And one could assert that quarks are just entangled electrons and positrons in various ratios and combinations. Which in my mind leads to the conclusion that all of time and space and matter doesn’t actually exist and we are just imaginary mathematical figments.
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
nul@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
For the people downvoting, may I hear a counterpoint as to why this wouldn’t make sense?
i_love_FFT@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Welcome to quantum field theory!
nul@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
Not in the current standard model, for sure. Or is there a reason empirically why they simply can’t be.
i_love_FFT@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Some properties of the electron are not present in photons, such as the lepton number and the electric charge.
It’s possible to create an electron positron pair out of a couple of high energy photons, but that is also true with many other elementary particles.
For a good intuitive introduction to this topic, i suggest Feynman’s book QED www.amazon.ca/…/0691164096/
It’s a short read, and explains how positrons can be seen as electrons going backwards in time!
nul@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
That sounds super interesting! Can’t read it until I get home (am on vacation at Disneyland right now) but in about a week’s time I hope you don’t mind if I reply with my updated understanding, and maybe a question or two.
I made a comment a while back (on my alt account) about how the origin of the universe can be expressed as a simple formula: sopuli.xyz/comment/3303086
So, I’m curious if that viewpoint will shift at all with a better understanding of electron positron interactions. It kind of makes sense to me that the universe and the antiverse are stacked on top of each other but with time pointing in opposite directions. But I’m sure I’m oversimplifying Feynman’s theory and I’ll have to read his reasoning to really understand.