On Thursday, May 16, 2019 at 11:57:44 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 15 May 2019, at 03:07, Lawrence Crowell <[email protected] > <javascript:>> 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]> 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 > > > An electron is the occurrence of some quantum numbers in a small local region with the occurrence of a measurement. Prior to a measurement in one sense there is no such thing as the electron as a particle. There are experiments where the spin of an electron can manifest itself in one place and the charge somewhere else. Certain interferometers can separate the electron's quantum numbers.
LC > > > > 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]. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> 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] <javascript:>. > 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/da2c3c46-9542-40d8-a384-dd08a40f1ce4%40googlegroups.com.
