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I think the one-electron theory is my favourite physics theory. It's something I was taught that's come around on Hacker News recently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe

**It involves a thought experiment.**

Imagine making jelly *(jello, if you're in the states)* with a load of string looped around, bundled, and set in it like a big suspended knot. Taking a cross-section of the jello will show a load of identical dots. They're seemingly un-connected, but _we know there's just one string they came from_.

Now extrapolate this out and imagine that the jelly is space-time, and any slice is our 3D world at a given time. Because we're bound by time we can only see one slice at a time. It seems to us that there are always a lot of identical dots - and we naturally assume each is a separate thing.

The one-electron theory asks whether this could be how we're perceiving electrons. Could there be one electron whizzing about space and time. At any given time, it would appear to us in multiple places as it passes through this slice in time. We've been able to 'see' electrons for a long time, they're all in different places - *but we've never been able to tell them apart*. What if they're actually all the same one.
	I think the one-electron theory is my favourite physics theory. It's something I was taught that's come around on Hacker News recently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe

	It involves a thought experiment.

	Imagine making jelly (jello, if you're in the states) with a load of string looped around, bundled, and set in it like a big suspended knot. Taking a cross-section of the jello will show a load of identical dots. They're seemingly un-connected, but _we know there's just one string they came from_.

	Now extrapolate this out and imagine that the jelly is space-time, and any slice is our 3D world at a given time. Because we're bound by time we can only see one slice at a time. It seems to us that there are always a lot of identical dots - and we naturally assume each is a separate thing.

	The one-electron theory asks whether this could be how we're perceiving electrons. Could there be one electron whizzing about space and time. At any given time, it would appear to us in multiple places as it passes through this slice in time. We've been able to 'see' electrons for a long time, they're all in different places - but we've never been able to tell them apart. What if they're actually all the same one.