One-electron universe
Physics postulate describing all electrons/positrons as one time-independent entity / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The one-electron universe postulate, proposed by theoretical physicist John Wheeler in a telephone call to Richard Feynman in the spring of 1940, is the hypothesis that all electrons and positrons are actually manifestations of a single entity moving backwards and forwards in time. According to Feynman:
I received a telephone call one day at the graduate college at Princeton from Professor Wheeler, in which he said, "Feynman, I know why all electrons have the same charge and the same mass" "Why?" "Because, they are all the same electron!"[1]
A similar "zigzag world line description of pair annihilation" has been independently devised by E. C. G. Stueckelberg at the same time.[2]