What if there were only one of each subatomic particle?

Fuck you. It’s mine.

Hahaha! Just kidding. Sometimes I think that we are all expressions of a universal consciousness. But it’s hard to hold onto that notion sitting in front of the TV watching people do horrible shit to each other.

I don’t know man, I guess that’s the whole yin/yang thing. We’ll have to pass one sometime.

Sounds like a religion to me.

If that were the case, it would not be called a particle. We define particles as different entities when they are separated by space and/or time. It is possible that all particles are different iterations of the same type of particle (somewhat like String Theory), but they cannot be the exact same particle since each iteration would have a different locus.

Sounds like LSD to me.

Sounds awesome to me.
I wonder what the quantum physicists themselves have to say about it, though.

@FireMadeFlesh
Are you arguing definitions, now? Does it matter whether or not it would be called a particle?

@Fyrius I think it does matter, because the only way I can conceive of this is a field theory where the universe is filled with a four-dimensional probability wave, and each peak is manifested as a particle. A field is a different concept to a particle, or at least a different way of thinking about the same thing.

I like firemadeflesh’s theory. I heard something about it once, thinking about the universe like that is supposed to solve a lot of quantum conundrums and uncertainty in the same stroke.

Sorry for late reply, someone ran a truck into phone line down the street.