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-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
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