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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago (16 children)

So if I can destroy 1 electron I destroy every electron?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Only in its future. Probably you’d have to find the electron precisely at the end of its timeline.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

To destroy every other quantum state of the single electron, wouldn't you need to destroy it at its beginning state? The end state would be at/just after the heat death of the universe, so it wouldn't really make any difference then.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

The end state doesn't have to be at the end of time if the electron can travel backwards in time. It can go to the end, head back towards the beginning, and get destroyed somewhere in between.

Strictly speaking it would have to get destroyed at some point, or at least have something stop it from going back and forth, otherwise the universe would be all electron.

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