【每個電子都相同】那麼，每個電子都是同一個電子？_風聞

What If Every Electron Is the Same Electron?

A vaguely plausible thought experiment posits that every electron is one electron moving back and forth through time.

如果每個電子都是同一個電子呢？ 一個貌似合理的思想實驗假設每個電子都是一個在時間中來回移動的電子。

 Here’s a question you’ve probably never considered: Why are all electrons the same? Every electron in the universe has exactly the same mass, exactly the same charge, and if you think about it, there’s no reason why they’d have to be.

 In 1940, physicist John Wheeler came up with a novel new theory that might explain why all electrons are identical. According to him, the reason that every electron is the same is because every electron is the same electron.

這裏有一個你可能從未考慮過的問題:為什麼所有的電子都是一樣的？宇宙中的每個電子都有完全相同的質量，完全相同的電荷，如果你仔細想想，它們沒有理由一定是這樣。 1940年，物理學家約翰·惠勒提出了一個新穎的新理論，可以解釋為什麼所有的電子都是相同的。根據他的説法，每個電子都相同的原因是因為每個電子都是相同的電子。

 There’s a lot of complicated physics involved, but simply put: Ot might be possible that every electron in the universe is the same electron, bouncing backward and forward in time. Just as an electron can be bounced around in space when hit with light, there might be a way to bounce an electron backward in time.

這涉及到許多複雜的物理問題，但簡單地説:宇宙中的每個電子都可能是同一個電子，在時間中來回跳動。就像電子被光擊中時會在空間反彈一樣，可能有一種方法可以讓電子在時間上反彈回來。

 If that’s the case, then there’s another consequence of this theory: Electrons moving backwards in time are positrons, the antimatter component of electrons. Not only are all electrons the same electron, but all positrons are also the same electron moving backward.

如果是這樣的話，那麼這個理論還有另一個結論:在時間中向後移動的電子是正電子，電子的反物質成分。不僅所有的電子都是同一個電子，所有的正電子也是同一個電子向後移動。

This is an interesting idea, but it’s far from proven. There are plenty of problems, such as why there are so many more electrons than positrons or why there are the number of electrons there are. After all, if a single electron can bounce backward and forward through time forever, why aren’t there an infinite number of electrons?

這是一個有趣的想法，但還遠未被證實。有很多問題，比如為什麼電子比正電子多這麼多，或者為什麼有這麼多的電子。畢竟，如果單個電子可以永遠在時間中來回反彈，為什麼沒有無限數量的電子呢？

But if it is true, what else might it mean? Perhaps every other particle, from protons to neutrons to exotic particles like neutrinos, is all just one particle bouncing back and forth through time. That would mean that not only are we all made of the same kinds of stuff, but in fact each of us is made using just one proton, neutron, and electron.

Of course, it might not be true at all, but what if it is?

但如果這是真的，那還意味着什麼呢？也許每一個其他的粒子，從質子到中子，再到像中微子這樣的奇異粒子，都只是一個在時間中來回跳動的粒子。這將意味着，不僅我們都是由同種物質構成的，而且事實上我們每個人都是由一個質子、中子和電子構成的。 當然，這可能根本不是真的，但如果是真的呢？

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