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From: Perry Swanborough <Perry.Swanborough@jcu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Why all electrons look the same...
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Perry Swanborough <Perry.Swanborough@jcu.edu.au> wrote:
>
> 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.
> 

- so electrons all look the same for the same reason that "on" cells
 in Conway's LIFE all look the same.

Perry

