> On 15 May 2019, at 03:07, Lawrence Crowell <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 9:24:05 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 12 May 2019, at 09:08, Evgenii Rudnyi <[email protected] <javascript:>> > > wrote: > > > > ‘I believe there are > > 15,747,724,136,275,002,577,605,653,961,181,555,468,044,717,914,527,116,709,366,231,425,076,185,631,031,296 > > protons in the universe, and the same number of electrons.’ > > > > Eddington, Arthur S. 1939. The Philosophy of Physical Science. Cambridge: > > Cambridge University Press. p. 170. The beginning of the Chapter XI, The > > Physical Universe. > > Lol. > > > The number is curiously not that different from the currently understood > number. > > To be honest I think there is only one electron in the universe. All these > electrons we see are just the same electron weaving through space and time.
That is quite reasonable, but I am not sure an electron is a physical object, it is a locally observable invariant in some group theoretical transformation. The “electron” is a useful fiction, to send waves, or to make the atoms dialoguing into molecules and bigger strangely stable and persistent histories decorum. I al still curious why that number. I don’t have that book by Eddington. Bruno > > LC > > I guess this concerns the observable universe, which has grown a lot since > 1939. (Cf Hubble and “Hubble) > > Any idea of why that particular number? Beyond the apparent joke? > > Bruno > > > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Everything List" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/2158abf8-82c9-8b49-eeb1-43415021244d%40rudnyi.ru > > > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/2158abf8-82c9-8b49-eeb1-43415021244d%40rudnyi.ru>. > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/eae6b0b3-4255-4262-8f1b-08cf26418660%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/eae6b0b3-4255-4262-8f1b-08cf26418660%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/E4567ED4-1B0E-49A6-B3A2-5F6A3AD405E1%40ulb.ac.be.
