FireTower@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 10 months agoWhat's the Oldest Thing You Own?message-squaremessage-square109fedilinkarrow-up197arrow-down12
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minus-squaresnooggums@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up16·10 months agoPetrified wood, about 225 million years old.
minus-squareKata1yst@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up22arrow-down1·10 months agoBy this logic, my oldest possessions are my protons, which are approximately the same age as the universe.
minus-squareKata1yst@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4·10 months agoYou would have to expound. I understand that protons are identical to each other, but I’ve never heard that they’re somehow all one particle.
minus-squareMaggiWuerze@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-210 months agoThat was a theory I read years ago. The idea is, that there is only one photon which exists more or less outside of time and so is everywhere a Proton would be expected. Edit: was actually about electrons https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe
minus-squaremaryjayjay@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·10 months agoThe diamond in my wife’s engagement ring is more than a billion years old.
minus-squareRooPappy@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·10 months agoIt would be cool if we could ID which exploding star it came from.
Petrified wood, about 225 million years old.
By this logic, my oldest possessions are my protons, which are approximately the same age as the universe.
You mean “proton”?
You would have to expound. I understand that protons are identical to each other, but I’ve never heard that they’re somehow all one particle.
That was a theory I read years ago. The idea is, that there is only one photon which exists more or less outside of time and so is everywhere a Proton would be expected.
Edit: was actually about electrons
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe
The diamond in my wife’s engagement ring is more than a billion years old.
It would be cool if we could ID which exploding star it came from.