I love this theory. I wish I could convince the electric company of it. One electron a month can't be expensive.

@binkz5987

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@spacedoutorca4550

2 жыл бұрын

Well they could also turn that around on you and say that you’re sharing that electron with everyone on earth, and will thus have to pay accordingly.

@simohayha6031

2 жыл бұрын

8

@pappi8338

2 жыл бұрын

So you're telling me I'm paying for the same electron billions of times over...where is the Galactic court? I need to sue someone

@sileightynz5274

2 жыл бұрын

I would counterargue that it's not the amount of electrons you receive that's important but the amount of energy that said number of electrons transfers

mom said it's my turn with the electron

@boogerbust619

4 жыл бұрын

can someone explain😅

@electricharmonyac7354

4 жыл бұрын

I love my Digitak!

@anablepophobia

4 жыл бұрын

@@boogerbust619 Mom said it's my turn to play the Nintendo.

@angelaslittlebit

4 жыл бұрын

My turns. :)

@timmy18135

4 жыл бұрын

What electron?

It's like how there's only one Olsen Twin, moving back and forth very fast.

@LewisBavin

2 жыл бұрын

Lmaaaaaaaaaao

@jrmybrbr13gmailcom

2 жыл бұрын

The displaced Olsen theory. I wrote a thesis about this back in college but my dog ate it.

@chaseclark2542

2 жыл бұрын

I’m pretty sure she did enough coke to achieve that!

@NeilCWCampbell

2 жыл бұрын

Actually it just Elizabeth ;)

@Aethelia

2 жыл бұрын

I'm still convinced there are 3. Mary, Kate, and Ashley.

It always cracks me up when he says, actually it's a little more complicated than that. You don't say?

@Alkis05

3 жыл бұрын

It is even worse when he says: "It is as simple as that" when it isn't.

@joshyoung1440

Жыл бұрын

@@Alkis05 can you give an example? Because when he says things are clear, _they are,_ but that doesn't mean your comprehension is automatically deep and connected enough to realize how all the puzzle pieces fit.

“Actually it’s slightly more complicated”. That’s okay I’m only slightly lost.

@4xfun448

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@tuneboyz5634

3 жыл бұрын

😞

The one electron universe is like Bugs Bunny in the classic baseball cartoon in which he plays all positions

@electronmechanicalcorporat2143

2 жыл бұрын

Correct

That phonecall between Wheeler and Feynman must have been some sort of a *_hits blunt_*-moment.

What if there was simply a single electron field, and what we think of as electrons are simply the points of interaction between matter and the electron field.

@mahmoudhakem7642

2 жыл бұрын

Makes sense i recall something actually turned out to be that way

@binkz5987

2 жыл бұрын

Like ur idea

@shafaet1194

2 жыл бұрын

The problem is, if we consider matter to be what's oscilating through electron fields, and not electrons. Then what would be the dense nucleus that isn't oscilating? Also, what about solids? If electron fields are simply the interaction with matter, why is it that at a colder temperature matter stops oscilating through electric fields?

@Kayaz48

2 жыл бұрын

That’s a natural surmise. Now, do the math to prove it.

@kellyhanten3971

Жыл бұрын

But... That is what they are

KZread has apparently mistaken me for a smart man.

@timq6224

4 жыл бұрын

it's only a mistake to you if you fail to realize it.

@laughlinflyer

4 жыл бұрын

My electron was just in you and WOW, you're a naughty boy!

@lorekeeper685

4 жыл бұрын

@@laughlinflyer thats amazing

@rednassie1101

4 жыл бұрын

You are in your own way

@jaredf6205

3 жыл бұрын

This channel is full of waaay more complicated videos than this one.

I'm going to tell my electricity supplier I've only used one electron!

@jimsmith1856

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah but you used it 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 times so it's going to cost you.

@drsjamesserra

4 жыл бұрын

a. y haha they should ‘charge’ you 1/Avogadro usd.

@patrickfitzpatrick45

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@yeastinchampagne440

4 жыл бұрын

Its about the voltage bruh.

@curlywurly4436

4 жыл бұрын

"Why should I pay, I only used my electron!""No no no, YOU used MY Electron" "No no no no no, MY Electron"

I could have sworn til my head fell off that this was my crazy idea but it turns out these guys came up with it 100 yrs back and it was probably just something I'd heard and regurgitated out of my subconscious. I've gone very quickly from feeling really clever to just very insecure about every creative idea I will ever have.

@MV-vv7sg

Жыл бұрын

Don’t be insecure. It’s just as likely you came to the same idea independently. Wittgenstein put that his only success of the Tractatus Logic-Philosophicus was to be understood and enjoyed by at least one person, and this (enormously great and mysterious work) might only be understood by those who have already come to the same notions and ideas: “Perhaps this book will be understood only by someone who has himself already had the thoughts that are expressed in it-or at least similar thoughts.-So it is not a textbook.-Its purpose would be achieved if it gave pleasure to one person who read and understood it.”

@joeroscoe3708

Жыл бұрын

Can you explain, at least to yourself, how to came to idea? If not, then likely it seeped in. But hey...at least it seeped in. But if you know what made the light bulb go off in the first place, you can lay claim to having the idea. Just not first.

@olivercharles2930

Жыл бұрын

It doesn't really matter as long as your idea came about organically. You would have to live in a vacuum to come up with truly original ideas.

@danedickerson

Жыл бұрын

It’s okay to adapt the ideas of others into your own creative twist

@modernNeanderthal800

Жыл бұрын

​@@deepender_neat

I like to imagine the electron getting to the end of time, panting as it tries to catch its breath for a few seconds, then chugs a Gatorade super fast before turning around and bolting off the way it came :)

"Every time you do math, you use the same 3 as Archimedes" - Henry from MinutePhysics

Opening sound and graphic.....OOPS, didn't realise my speakers were turned up so high. Matt starts to talk.....OOPS, I must have turned it down too much. Another graphic/sound.....WTF WHY IS IT SO LOUD!? Matt talks again......SPEAK UP HOLY SHIT!

@paulthompson9668

7 жыл бұрын

OMG the sound mixer must have fallen asleep doing this one.

@flow5718

7 жыл бұрын

seems fine on headphones..

@rhyno3780

7 жыл бұрын

So just like Hollywood levels of sound production?

@ColtaineCrows

7 жыл бұрын

+flow, nope it's exactly as described by +Shane Davis on headphones as well.

@Graghma

7 жыл бұрын

It has been like this for a long time... and while I haven't complained, I highly agree!

"Now that we completely understand the fundamental nature of antimatter..." Excuse me?

@carlosandleon

4 жыл бұрын

antimatter is not dark matter. I switch them all the time myself too lol. Antimatter is just opposite matter, there's nothing else to it.

@iamkocka6457

4 жыл бұрын

I didn't confuse dark matter with antimatter. I just taught the statement was a bit funny, because he says this to the audience as if we have some intuitive understanding of the subject, which most of us don't :D

@carlosandleon

4 жыл бұрын

@@iamkocka6457 alrighty then :3

@TheRobGuard

4 жыл бұрын

If theres anti matter and EMc2 then there should be anti energy aswell?

@primeddesign

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheRobGuard antimatter still has regular mass, so it would just be regular energy

tbh considering we have the "wow signal" and the "omg particle," "wtf flow" doesn't sound _that_ far out there.

@Kitsudote

5 ай бұрын

I'd love it to be named like that :D

Spoiler: it's actually a single positron, and we're the ones going backwards in time.

@thedeemon

7 жыл бұрын

That's good, this way we won't see the Big Crunch that's about to happen in 13.7 bn years.

@zokalyx

6 жыл бұрын

I thought Big Crunch is an outdated idea... Heat Death is all that remains?

@darinrummel2150

6 жыл бұрын

Francisco, thedeemon means that, if we're the ones going backwards in time, then Big Bang is actually the Big Crunch.

@zokalyx

6 жыл бұрын

Okay now I understand that 13.7 bn years. And this comment just got much interesting

@chillkindofperson4875

6 жыл бұрын

A universe so dense, light doesn't escape itself. I call it "dead universe". It's all there, having stages and phases. But light doesn't"flow-like beams" String theory makes the sight of stars weave and and stretch, making the light unpredictable. Gravitational impulses however may be like sending Morse codes. But the abuse of this "impulse machine" And the mix of high energy, And converging it into small portal-like atom, Making more of them, are like two bubbles merging together and so on. When the desired size has reached. It is impossible to just "let it go" or have a release button. You could use this technology for total destruction, or harvesting different kind of fuel-stars circulation method. Let's be honest here. Could we adapt to higher radiation like other species have? Or we ditched Mars and lost history, some even choose to send and grow their babies somewhere safer? (sperm timer injection + artificial womb-hibernater) maybe someone's A.I could have scan us already but signal is still sending to them for a long time but hasn't got there. The way we see stars, is how you seen them yesterday.

The universe is really just you and one guy running around really fast with a flash light.

@vasukigowda9491

4 жыл бұрын

Kurtz's just made a video

@ViratKohli-jj3wj

4 жыл бұрын

69 likes nice

@abhiprakash74999

4 жыл бұрын

????

@mhc4124

4 жыл бұрын

I knew it

@lifeinaraindrop108

4 жыл бұрын

Its just theory.

The main problem I've always seen with this is the fact that a positron and electron can be created and then annihilate with each other. That would be a separate electron in a time-loop according to this idea, although it would be interesting if it turned out that the math would be the same if we allowed those particles to have any mass, charge, etc.

@SolomonUcko

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe there are many electrons, each stuck in its own time loop?

@olejakobaune8033

3 жыл бұрын

Why would they annihilate themselves if energy cannot disappear

@hughcaldwell1034

3 жыл бұрын

This was my first thought.

@Mr.Nichan

3 жыл бұрын

@@olejakobaune8033 The energy doesn't disappear. When an electron and a positron collide, it normally creates two gamma rays, each about 511 keV (the rest mass energy of an electron). Similarly, electron-positron pairs are usually produced from the splitting of a gamma ray with energy greater than 1022 keV (the excess energy becomes kinetic energy, at least until it gets really high). Different processes can happen, particularly when the electron and positron have extreme kinetic or potential energy, and electrons and positrons can also be created by beta decay and reactions of neutrinos with nuclei (another complication with the one-electron universe idea), but in any case energy is conserved.

@fragileomniscience7647

2 жыл бұрын

The original theory by Wheeler stated that the positrons that are created as the electron is trajecting backwards in time are confined into protons. That would explain their positive charges. I may believe that you could derive the Pauli principle for fermions - at least for protons - from that: Protons must be spatially separated, else due to two positive charges being created, they summon the electron at extremely high energy potentials (electroweak force) which cause further time dilation for the protons that capsule the time-backwards positrons, thereby requiring increasingly more energy to bridge that gap in space-time.

If the positron is in fact Wheeler’s single electron traveling back in time, are all positrons-like the electron-homogeneous? Do they also have the same mass and the same charge? If so, this could help strengthen Wheeler’s hypotheses.

@shafaet1194

2 жыл бұрын

Yes they do, they are identical except their charges are opposite ^^

@arsh9908

2 жыл бұрын

Same mass and same magnitude of charge... However, Dirac had a different explanation for their existence I believe

@Kayaz48

2 жыл бұрын

The problem with this it that there are an infinitesimal number of positrons in the Universe. They have only been made in very high power accelerators.

@Kayaz48

2 жыл бұрын

@@arsh9908 Thank you. Correct.

@arsh9908

2 жыл бұрын

@@Kayaz48 yep, Baryonic asymmetry. Dirac's sea explains it better imo. Wheeler's hypothesis seems to be just that- a hypothesis. Pretty random, to the best of my knowledge.

I just counted. Yup, there's 1.

@CamTechBricks

6 жыл бұрын

:D

@averyritchot2187

6 жыл бұрын

I checked your work. I got in my time machine and it was same one.

@abyssmanur3965

6 жыл бұрын

sarcasmo57 Lets smash it in an accelerator

@LuisSierra42

6 жыл бұрын

i had to count too, you were right

@jean-louispech4921

5 жыл бұрын

there is one behind you :-p

A close analogy would be CRT screens. An electron gun creating a pixel on the screen can be thought of as the "one" electron. Then sweeping it across the screen at very high speed creates an image. It looks like we have so many pixels but in reality it is just one pixel present at so many points at the same time (given persistence of vision of-course). This one electron universe makes some sense to me.

@zokalyx

6 жыл бұрын

nice

@MrBollocks10

5 жыл бұрын

Really???

@normkirk65

5 жыл бұрын

Lol !

@thisisjunaid1449

5 жыл бұрын

That is how exactly old TV sets work!!!

@MrCrapentertainment

5 жыл бұрын

I like your way of thinking

9:13 "hey everyone, now that we COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND the fundamental nature of antimatter..." Oh yes, I understand, 100%

@eustab.anas-mann9510

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah and why there's more matter than antimatter.... Totally

Wheeler: there is only one electron Pauli exclusion principle:I'm I joke to you

@bazookaboss332

4 жыл бұрын

@Brad Mayo explanation?

@rufusapplebee1428

3 жыл бұрын

For dark matter and singularities and even Bose-Einstine condensates, super symmetry unification energy, ... YES,... Pauli's Exclusion principle is ineffective.

@CorePathway

3 жыл бұрын

LOL LOL LOL I don’t get it LOL LOL LOL

"It surrounds us, and penetrates us; it binds the galaxy together" - Obi-Wan Kenobi

@thomasvalen5814

4 жыл бұрын

"penetration"

@pinkfloydguy7781

3 жыл бұрын

Thomas Valen surrounded, penetrated, and bound

@tomfly3155

3 жыл бұрын

@@pinkfloydguy7781 sounds like the wrong party☹️

@gyro5d

3 жыл бұрын

Neutrinos.

@stoplayin21

3 жыл бұрын

Oh the force was a electron

I for one approve of "WTF Flow" and "Discombobulating Energy".

My son (15) asked me this and I couldn‘t answer: What happens when this single electron crosses the event horizon of a black hole? Is it going to come back because it can move backwards in time?

@supersonictumbleweed

4 жыл бұрын

All black holes evaporate through so called hawking radiation. If you watched this topic, hawking radiation should be pretty easy to grok

@volkerwiedersheim

4 жыл бұрын

Supersonic Tumbleweed 1. I had to look up „to grok“ (my English isn‘t that advanced it seems). 2. I now have an amateur understanding of Hawking radiation. 3. I gather the single electron obviously can wait to get back in the game via Hawking radiation since has all the time in the world. But I still can‘t figure, still equipped with this merely amateurish understanding, whether it can skip the evaporation wait and in principle happily go wherever it pleases by backwards time travelling. Someone wanna chime in?

@supersonictumbleweed

4 жыл бұрын

@@volkerwiedersheim If a positron would fall into the black hole then yes. But the problem with that is that anti-matter, which positron is, would be repelled by normal matter black hole? I am not sure how that works

@colejohnson2230

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe reverse time gravity repells instead of attracts...

@zzasdfwas

4 жыл бұрын

Well if a electron world line moves past an event horizon and then back out, you would see an electron and a positron fall into a black hole. But you can also have another world line showing an electron and positron generate just outside the horizon and come out from the hole, appearing as Hawking radiation. In one electron theory, these would be part of the same world line, connected somewhere, either inside or outside the black hole. I wish I could easily show a picture here.

In "Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman" I recall that Feynman said that they looked into the one electron theory and it didn't work mathematically. It was supposed to be an example of how novel theories aren't very meaningful if they don't pass the tests of the scientific method.

It's my electron. You can't have it!

@kunal1957

4 жыл бұрын

But mom said it was my turn! 😢

Now I got evil plan to stop electron in spacetime.

@zokalyx

6 жыл бұрын

no plz

@lastxp

5 жыл бұрын

No easy feat

@deadalpeca8099

5 жыл бұрын

That would litterally break all of the universe

@kevincloud574

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, break the universe

@bacicinvatteneaca

5 жыл бұрын

I mean ok but it already did all its past and future movements, you're just locking it in the present

I enjoy O'Dowd ...he reminds me of a full sized Peter Dinklage

There may only be one electron 'field'. which resonates at multiple locations where it's perceived as a 'particle' . A 'positron' occurs when it vibrates in the opposite phase. (I just made the last part up, but it sounds as valid as any other hypothesis!)

I'm GOING to understand this one! I'm going to understand.. this one.. I'm .. going to.. Um.. -plays next vid

@thewormholetv7228

5 жыл бұрын

I'm GOING to laugh on this one ! I'm going to laugh.. on this one.. I'm .. going to... Um.. - watches another comment

@ethorii

5 жыл бұрын

I know the feeling. I start so positively, then as the seconds tick by, and I am following less and less, I blame the host for talking too fast. Yeah, that's it!

@kelly2fly

5 жыл бұрын

Kent Hoyt you can always slow down the video. But, let's be honest, we both know that's not the reason why we all can't comprehend the one electron hypothesis. 😢

@joechevy2035

5 жыл бұрын

I've been squirreling on the idea of FTL travel for years and it led me to this vid. It helps IMMENSELY. Thank you!

@hunterliu6620

4 жыл бұрын

Not your fault, explanation sucks. Other vids clearer.

Why does everyone seem to presume that the observable universe is a good proxy for the entire universe? Couldn't the imbalance of matter and anti matter just be a localised phenomenon?

@thedeemon

7 жыл бұрын

Do you want to say positrons were created together with electrons and then somehow moved faster than light to escape the observable universe? We see light from big bang as CMB radiation, we see all the matter that moved slower than light since then (in observable region), and we don't see any signs of big chunks of anti-matter.

@garethdean6382

7 жыл бұрын

Well for one thing it involves invoking incredible chances, (Beyond astronomical that we just 'randomly' ended up as a patch like this.) for another it isn't testable, the outside universe could contain anything. You may as well say God did it. Science assumes a testable in-universe reason for everything as that's the only way it can advance, anything else is just giving up.

@mrjfward

7 жыл бұрын

That doesn't seem correct to me. Firstly we already have the goldilocks principle applied to many aspects of why were here (and I mean scientific reasons) from why this planet and its location, the laws of physics themselves, and even which of the multiverses were in. Secondly, science also involves thinking and deducing, and as above includes theories about other universes. If we can apply that principle to other universes, I don't see why it cannot be applied to our own. So other than dismissing the idea, I come back to my original question "Why does everyone seem to presume that the observable universe is a good proxy for the entire universe?"

@mrjfward

7 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure we already established that matter didn't end up uniformly distributed across the universe, why presume matter and anti-matter got a smooth distribution?

@thedeemon

7 жыл бұрын

Because they get born together. For every particle of matter created, at the same time and place an antiparticle gets born.

Very interesting and worthwhile video.

Basically "The Egg" story, but for the electron.

@Antifag1977

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. Maybe this is where they got the idea for that story?

@TheJeremyKentBGross

2 жыл бұрын

Eggs came first. There were eggs long before there were chickens.

@katerina9360

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheJeremyKentBGross I think they are talking about "the egg" story from the video of "in a nutshell" ,that is very interesting by the way, and not about the egg and chicken thing

@TheJeremyKentBGross

2 жыл бұрын

@@katerina9360 Ah. I don't know that one. I'll have to look it up.

@TheJeremyKentBGross

2 жыл бұрын

@@katerina9360 Hmm. I don't find a spacetime video with that name.

_"Actually, it's slightly more complicated than that."_ I propose a Hofstadter's rule for physics: _It's slightly more complicated than you think, even when you take into account Hofstadter's rule for physics._ 😉

I often play PBS Space Time's Video's on loud whilst I'm out and about. I just watch and nod to everything being said ( when In reality, I don't have a clue ). At least everyone in McDonald's and Greggs thinks I have a PHD. Bless you, PBS :D

@michaelangelo8671

7 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@ExtraCreations

7 жыл бұрын

HAha i do same

@ericsbuds

7 жыл бұрын

hahahah

@alanross1117

7 жыл бұрын

Woobywooo i do this with porn at burger king

@mongomoonbladder8023

7 жыл бұрын

alan ross I expect everyone thinks you have an STD. 😀

always coming back to this video, I love the idea

"What Goes Around Comes Around - The One & Only Electron"

so, it is *OUR* electron. *comunism anthem intensifies*

@natehigman3987

5 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/f36Y3JWiZJfKecY.html (HEADPHONE USERS BEWARE)

@catchphase

5 жыл бұрын

Yon Malikul Kudus Capitalist music stops

@whiderboss

5 жыл бұрын

*You just started a war with the communist aliens on mars*

@ryanwacht5534

5 жыл бұрын

Mom is the electron.

@wichitazen

4 жыл бұрын

Spellcheck.

So the electron is like the Olsen twin(s)?

@metalhead7127

7 жыл бұрын

There is ONLY ONE Olsen girl, its just that it moves really fast left-right and that gives the illusion of two and one day I will have the proof, you just wait and see...

@RSmeep13

7 жыл бұрын

the only question remaining to be answered is WHY?

@Aleonore22

7 жыл бұрын

It's all a lie! I don't know why but it is!

@UlaisisP

7 жыл бұрын

mystery solved!

@metalhead7127

7 жыл бұрын

Wake up sheeple, wake up, before its too late

Dr. Quantum brought me here. Love your vids would buy the shirt if I could. Keep it up. Much love

The one electron theory is a lesson to all scientists that no matter how crazy your theory is, it might actually spark some creativity in someone else. You should never dismiss an idea just because it seems impossible

Oh good, I needed to have an existential crisis today

I always come to this channels video with a lot of excitement but always end up understanding nothing.

@MrTripcore

7 жыл бұрын

It's very hard to understand quantum mechanics imo. Einstein initially had a lot of trouble understanding it

@sahibjot01

6 жыл бұрын

i feel ya

@Wild4lon

6 жыл бұрын

Speed Savvy come back when you've studied more physics

@dastrev7833

6 жыл бұрын

Einstein never liked quantum mechanics and neither do I!

@vedangratnaparkhi

6 жыл бұрын

BOO

These just never get old!

This made me laugh. It reminded me of the one shopping mall theory. A comedian theorized that shopping malls are so much alike that they much all be the same shopping mall.

Wouldn't it be interesting if the reason we see an imbalance between matter and antimatter is purely because one dominates over the other to differing degrees based on when in time you are?

@dna7767

7 жыл бұрын

:thinking: hmmmmmmm

@rngwrldngnr

7 жыл бұрын

Keith Gaughan if we assume all the world lines are closed, that is they eventually loop back to their original location, with no world lines actually ending, then I don't think this is possible. If the lines are all continuous and finite then at any given time, if you're observing an electron moving forward in time, there would have to be a corresponding positron that is moving backward in time to become that electron. I don't know nearly enough physics to know of that assumption about world lines all being closed is even remotely reasonable.

@ekki1993

7 жыл бұрын

I always thought it was purely random. The great attractor beyond our observable universe points at the "entire" universe being bigger than what we can see (i.e. our observable universe), so it could be that we happen to exist in a patch of space that happened to have more matter than antimatter. There could be other patches of space with antimatter with intelligent life asking the same question, or there could be patches where it's more even than in ours, in which case the entire observable universe may look entirely different.

@marguskoiduste

7 жыл бұрын

I believe there needs to be equal number of positrons and electrons at any given time for the one-electron universe to work. However there could be some region of space where everything is mostly positrons.

@noretardhere

7 жыл бұрын

Or in what direction of time you are travelling! If you are travelling in the forward direction you see electrons, but in the reverse direction they pass through our 'frame' so quickly we only observe snapshots of them. (Someone explained this in another comment)

Electron is god, praise electron

@zokalyx

6 жыл бұрын

yea

@HMotam-dn6by

5 жыл бұрын

hail electron.

@deathbydeviceable

5 жыл бұрын

But then God was always a negative little one

@sheshomaru6799

5 жыл бұрын

Damn... Maybe 🤔

@cenaloh4714

5 жыл бұрын

Doesn't that mean I am you and you are me because we one electron in the end 😅mind blow 😏

This is a good video to send to friends who want to engage in analytical discussion of Tenet

Everyone: You cant time travel because of the grandfather paradox The electron: Hold my charge!

7:40 Another problem is that Feynman diagrams can contain electron-positron "islands", where a photon becomes an electron-positron pair which then becomes a photon again. It's like the diagram at 6:50 if you connected the outgoing electron to the incoming electron, making a loop. So only photons enter and leave such a diagram but there are electrons in it. These electrons can have no connection to the One True Electron that's zigzagging back and forth across the universe. Such Feynman diagrams with islands make a measurable contribution, so they can't easily be explained away.

@b43xoit

7 жыл бұрын

Bump.

@andik70

6 жыл бұрын

While a lot of people might disagree: Internal lines in a Feynman-Diagramm are only artefacts of the pertubation expansion... sorry...

@jimtaggert42

6 жыл бұрын

you're a dumbass

@mike3684

6 жыл бұрын

andik70 I agree... Hence "virtual" photons and such?

Matt how you managed to make your beard super-symmetrical?

7 жыл бұрын

If you have an electric shaver with spacers, a mirror, and a dense enough beard (this is my problem), I assume it to be feasible. If you have an unsteady hand, you could try using a piece of paper to outline where you want to cut - I never tried that myself, though.

@NoMoreForeignWars

7 жыл бұрын

One side is reversed in time.

@existenence3305

7 жыл бұрын

I believe that's because he had been growing it in two different dimensions, each beard being an anti-beard of the other!.!.!

@nirmaljeetsinghkalsi7163

7 жыл бұрын

Hindi songs

@Smonjirez

7 жыл бұрын

Perhaps all the hairs on his face are actually only one hair as with the one-electron universe :V.

I had a similar thought concerning entangled particles. That they are actually a single particle viewed in two different places. Like looking at opposite sides of the same coin. They appear separate from our perspective but the universe may not see them the same way.

From what I can tell though, the one electron theory can't account for photon excitation creating a positron electron pair that then self annihilate, because the electron can't escape that interaction, it's a closed temporal loop.

One particle to rule them all..

@apekillssnake

7 жыл бұрын

There can be only one! Hylander

@watsisname

7 жыл бұрын

One does not simply charge-parity-time reversal into Mordor.

This for some reason reminds me of the simulation hypothesis. A simulation, covering an infinite amount of space, that works at one equation at a time, on a sufficiently/ridiculously fast computer. Or, imagine a 3-D printer, and imagine the nozzle represents this one electron, filling in every single particle in the universe within the scale of the smallest measurable unit of time, hence there being a potential limit to the smallest measurable unit of time possible. I don't claim any academic background, just enjoyed the thought experiment.

@Jadix

5 жыл бұрын

What you described is similar to cellular automata. Each unit of space locally computes a single algorithm based on its neighbors. kzread.info/dash/bejne/loV-l8N-o7OcdtY.html

@m4rvinmartian

5 жыл бұрын

@@Jadix and to simplify things, everything is based on fractals

@wwtapsable

5 жыл бұрын

Really to make a computer that can simulate something that big doesnt need to do it in real time it might take a millennium to calculate a single day but for anyone in the simulated universe wouldn't be able to tell the difference time would appear normal

This was a good one. Mind blown. So everyone's mind is blown. Cause it's the same electron and all.

This is one of my most favorite theories.

This is a question: What happens at the moment of time when the electron flips. There is a moment where an electron is without charge and without parity.

Could you please make a video on Erik Verlinde's quantum gravity and (possible) explanation of both dark matter and also dark energy?

What an awesome concept... I'm going to sleep on this one tonight

Excellent..... thanks 🙏

If you take the graph you used and wrapped it around so that the "end of time" and "beginning of time" connect (it would look like a cylinder) and assume that there isn't really an edge to the cylinder, you would find that the electron would just wrap around the graph endlessly- thus mapping the electron onto an infinite universe that would just keep repeating itself. Maybe you could even have a 'singularity'- a point where the electron meets itself an infinite amount of times, thus allowing for the expansion of space from that singular point. This representation even allows for the fact that space is expanding at a rate faster than light. after a certain point, space would start shrinking till the point of singularity and thus repeating itself. Continuing with the theory that positrons and electrons are the same thing, you could change the representation from an electron looping through the singularity to an electron that 'bounces off' of the singularity, thus changing from an electron to a positron. spacetime would still move in a circle essentially, but the electron would bounce back and forth from the singularity.

@thomasstrele3231

5 жыл бұрын

But if the Universe were to endlessly loop into itself there would surely be an infinite amount of electrons..?

@liammcguinness5465

5 жыл бұрын

That would work on a möbius strip

@NeonluxDJWorks

5 жыл бұрын

@@thomasstrele3231 Then: Infinite = 1

@stevenmacdougall5292

3 жыл бұрын

Well look at the big brain on brad

9:35 That moment when the teacher asks you to hand in homework and you realise you hadn’t been listening.

My favorite way of thinking of this is knitting. There is only one thread, but its continuously interacting with itself at various points along its own length

To paraphrase Sting & The Police, "One electron is enough, for all of us..."

There can be only one electron. One electron to rule them all! :-)

I've been obsessing on this for a couple of decades now. I hope you can clear it all up for me.

I'm here because of TENET Just kidding, but this anecdote let me understand the movie in blink. Thanks pbs!

I am really glad Agent Smith is now teaching theoretical physics.

I have an idea! Let's put a "dot" on the electron and see if they all get a dot! This way we'll know.

Wow! I spend hours and hours within youtube over the year, in order to search for interesting ideas about fundamental physics. And I have been disappointed so many times by so many videos that mostly just repeat that "we know everything"- and "QED is so well tested"-hype. But sometimes I come accross some really (!) interesting ideas! Like this one. Really, thank you for the video! This really is an amazing idea that might be worth to think about more deeply.

@reframer8250

2 жыл бұрын

Especially this interacts with many of my considerations that really concern Gedankenexperiments whith one-particle-universes. Because there are really strange conclusions that can be made in such universes regarding the nature of rotation and position. But I never had the idea to consider such a universe as THE "real one"^^ This is really an intriguing simple idea! My desperate considerations have been driven all the time by the idea, that space and time do not exist fundamentally but are only manifestations of the relationsship between objects and processes. But within this one-particle-picture they would only be the manifestations of the selfinteraction of just one thing. This is just such a crazy fancy idea! I am really excited! Maybe it would also solve the problem of overcomplexity of quantum field theory that results from the high-dimensionality of multiparticle states. This problem is more or less the reason why in quantum field theory it is not really possible to calculate any dynamical behaviour of things (which in my opinion should be the purpose of any physical theory)

@frede1905

2 жыл бұрын

Whoever told you that "we know everything" probably shouldn't make science videos.

this theory is crazy hearing it for the first time

That moment when you were a kid and you realized something could be divided into smaller and smaller and smaller pieces turns out to be insight into the highest nature of reality

It's Douglas Adams "Heart of Gold" theory of the universe. Don't panic :)

Love you Space Time

Why is there more than 1 of any fundamental particle. A fantastic question that I haven't seen addressed before this vid. Would love to see this explored further in another vid.

What happens after the one electron falls into a black hole?

@garethdean6382

7 жыл бұрын

It becomes a Hawking radiation positron.

@moveaway6385

6 жыл бұрын

Gareth Dean sounds right. That's basically the explanation I've heard for Hawking radiation (the stuff that black holes "emit", when gravity says nothing should be able to escape - or be emitted). Totally 'empty' space supposedly produces quark / anti-quark pairs all the time, which immediately annihilate again. If one member of the pair is JUST outside the black hole event horizon, and the other is JUST inside -- the one that escapes is the Hawking radiation. (So it doesn't really escape.) In the language of this video....if the electron truly falls in, I guess it goes back in time to escape as a positron?

@garethdean6382

6 жыл бұрын

This actually creates some interesting problems. If a hole absorbs a proton and electron it doesn't need to emit either as hawking radiation, it's as if it fused them into a neutron inside. Being able to do that (And do that outside of holes, which can be done in a lab) In essence mixes electrons\positrons and protons, which causes problems for the theory. (Since in essence your one particle now has to be not only electrons and positrons but ALL particles of all kinds.)

What about a case of a gamma photon with enough energy to pair produce an electron-positron pair, but not enough energy to give the pair enough kinetic energy to escape each other's electric field so the two collide and annihilate. That sounds like a new electron to me.

@muckvix

4 жыл бұрын

If the election retraces it's steps backward as a positron, following the exact the same path, the two cancel each other. If at one segment of this joint path the forward and backward motion slightly split apart, and then recombine, you get precisely the event you described: an appearance of the pair, followed by it's annihilation.

@crinklecake53

3 жыл бұрын

an electron stuck in a time loop bouncing back and forth between two deflection events? is it a new electron or did it find its way into the anihilation creation loop constantly flipping between a fowards time moving electron and a backwards time moving positron.

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Srpski prevod. Odlicno , hvala.

@imho2278

5 ай бұрын

Ne pyccya.

2:47 the 'e' looks like Microsoft edge logo

@jimmyjimjimdoctor

5 жыл бұрын

Omg

What if the lack of antimatter is because of this exactly? It only exists in a flipped over universe when the electron moves back in time. The amount of it is equal to regular matter yet we can't see it as we somehow can only observe it when it moves forward in time.

@cptbula7279

5 жыл бұрын

Nice

@openwaters2988

5 жыл бұрын

mrfan1100 we can only observe it as it moves forward in time because we are one dimensional. Yes, we live in a four d universe, but that fourth dimension, time, is one dimensional, it only moves in one direction at one single point in time, at a time. His may help explain why quantum computing can be both on and off at the same “time”. Why the electron when passed the the double slit experiment unobserved takes all,possible paths. This may also be why we can’t see, or observe the orbit of an electron around a nucleus because it is passing through the fifth dimension. What we observe in the form of the electron cloud is possibly a hint, or observation of those passes into and out of the fifth or sixth dimension into our dimension. If we could see a fifth dimensional point of view we could see the entire lifeline of that electron. In the sixth we could see the entirety of all,possible paths or universes the electron could exist in. Just some thoughts. What do you think?

@evilotis01

4 жыл бұрын

holy shit

@EMGIAKOUM

4 жыл бұрын

@@openwaters2988 maaan..you nailed it!

@openwaters2988

4 жыл бұрын

@@EMGIAKOUM thanks!

OMG.... This is seriously crazy stuff.

My mind was blown in the first 30sec

Wouldn't a single-electron universe hypothesis imply the total number of apparent electrons in the universe could vary wildly as time advances, as threads pop into and out of the present?

@garethdean6382

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, but each variation would be matched with a positron so the total electrons - positrons would be zero. The fact that it's NOT zero suggests the theory is just a cute idea.

@TiagoTiagoT

7 жыл бұрын

Don't some of the diagrams have an electron producing a photon and a positron spontaneously?

@garethdean6382

7 жыл бұрын

As virtual particles, never as ones that can actually do something OUTSIDE of the diagram. They can basically be ignored.

@MrTripcore

7 жыл бұрын

It would, but it also depends if you count the single electron as creating additional energy in the form of the break in the law of energy conservation

From the title I thought this was going to talk about an hypotethical Universe just an-elecetron-small ahahah

Thank you for your brilliant explanation of the powerful one-electron (or one-positron) universe by John Archibald Wheeler. I am still cheerfully puzzled as to the big problem with Wheeler's theory if block time is a happy reality. Any kind suggestions of where I can turn would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again!

This is an interesting idea.

The statement of "electrons share the same everything" confuses me because according to the Pauli exclusion principle, all "identical" electrons should have separate eigenstates. If there really is only one electron, how could it maintain separate eigenstates whilst being only one particle..?

@gabemoser1

7 жыл бұрын

Smart feller hope he will answer this

@AndrewKay

7 жыл бұрын

They don't all have the same position or momentum (they can travel in different directions). In terms of the one-electron hypothesis, the Pauli exclusion principle says the electron's worldline can't trace back over itself, drawing the same path twice.

Wouldn’t this also solve the way electrons seem to “teleport” within a probability cloud around a nucleus?

@fragileomniscience7647

2 жыл бұрын

It would also be an interesting interpretation as to how observation via Heisenberg would limit information about the electrons trajectory if that same electron powers a sentient observer. It would be like a radar pistol trying to measure its precision only by its radar: impossible. Thinking further: if observation uncovers this limitation of the electrons information content, what does that say about sentient beings? Beings, i.e. physical systems with brains and memories that contain feedbacked electric connections. What if it is the electron in the one electron universe that when feedbacked creates in the neurons a map of reality that gets recalled piecewise as their positrons emerge from the electron going backwards in time, which coincidentally happens when one recalls a memory, thus causes feedbacked electric potential changes in the brain?

@Richinnameonly

2 жыл бұрын

No it wouldn't because those atoms with multiple electrons would have multiple cases of the same electron interacting with itself. This says nothing about each electrons probability wave.

Makes sense. Its abundance in the past and its sparseness in the future are reflective of its increasing and decreasing movement across the universe in both directions of spacetime.

I remember coming up with this theory in my teens. No idea what idea led to it. I played with it for a few days then forgot it. It was my way of amusing myself, but I knew of nothing I could do with the idea and eventually moved onto the next.

I suppose this could be partially true. Reminds me of programming tbh, when you add an element to the stage you do so by calling the class file. We create the class file to make it easier so we don't have to code the same thing over and over every time we add it. We make one class file and call it everytime we add that particular element and can do so an infinite amount of times with only having to write the code once

@FarfettilLejl

3 жыл бұрын

Are you maybe, just maybe, trying to tell us we live in a computer simulation?

@ImFataI

2 жыл бұрын

A better example would be a singleton. Objects are still fundamentally separate and distinct instances of classes even if their underlying properties and methods are the same.

ALL HAIL THE CAPTIONS Also next time use an audio equaliser

@devonadler5835

5 жыл бұрын

Seconded, audio is trash

Thank you

i love this

Wait, I've just thought of something. This might be wrong, however, as I'm not an expert on this topic. For the electron to have travelled in time from the Big Bang to present, it must have had a positive sum of time travelled (13.8 billion years). If visualised (on a 2D graph with y being "universal time" and x being space, "untangled" so it only moves constantly in one direction), it would look like a chaotic squiggly line, but it would move positively through time overall. That would mean that there would always be one more electron than there are positrons. You could flatten out all the squiggles (by antimatter annihilation) and end up with a simple line going straight up (one electron). Always, because the electron must have had an overall average "temporal speed" of 1 second per second. But what if there were many time-travelling electrons instead of one? Well, this is what might be causing the slight imbalance between matter and antimatter! Now it might seem obvious that matter causes matter. However, this theory (or whatever) could be a way of explaining the mentioned imbalance. Eternal "master" electrons sound way cooler than random matter asymmetry. And because this is caused by them moving through time, time itself might have some energy intrinsic to it. This is possibly just a random 4am thought experiment and English isn't my first language, so it might be wrong and/or hard to understand. Sorry.

@dreggory82

5 жыл бұрын

I think you are on to something. Publish!

@johnassal5838

3 жыл бұрын

If space time has a bias like an intrinsic gradient then positive matter might go forward either more or exactly as much as it goes back while antimatter is more likely to go back. This could resolve CP violation and even possibly sidestep the Big Bang singularity by placing the highest density of matter/antimatter events just after that singularity would've been.