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From: Perry Swanborough <Perry.Swanborough@jcu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Why all electrons look the same...
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dekorte@intrepid.suite.com (Steve Dekorte) wrote:
>
> 
> Feynman once thought that all electrons look the same because they all are 
> the same single electron,
> traveling back and forth through time.
> 
> Here's another crazy idea:
> 
> Maybe there are classes of particles that look the same because they were 
> capable of self replication in the 
> environment of the early universe. In other words, electrons look the same 
> because they are 'geneticaly' related.
> 
> This would fit with decay as well. The relationship between a particle's 
> decay product could be symbiotic
> like mitocondria in our cells.
> 
> Steve Dekorte
> 

Perhaps our universe is a CA (Fredkin) and what we call electrons (or 
other particles) are states of cells in the CA.

Perry
