Re: Does "identical" mean "one"?

From: Michelle Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Fri Jul 17 1998 - 20:35:04 MDT


Harvey Newstrom wrote:

> During the upload discussion, many people claimed that if two objects
> were identical except for location, that they were the same object....

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> Does this mean that there is only one hydrogen atom in the entire
> universe? One helium atom? One of each of about 100 elements...

my instructor in modern physics presented a theory that there is only
one electron, vibrating back and forth in time. i didnt follow his
reasoning... spike



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