Re: Does "identical" mean "one"?

From: Hara Ra (harara@shamanics.com)
Date: Sun Jul 19 1998 - 00:50:50 MDT


>Harvey Newstrom :
>Does this mean that there is only one hydrogen atom in the entire
>universe? One helium atom? One of each of about 100 elements, meaning
>the entire universe consists of about 100 atoms? This seems to be
>mysticism at its best, claiming that we are all one, and that
>distinctions between me and thee are illusions. This is the first time
>I have heard this theory outside religious mysticism. Do other
>extropians really feel this way?
>
Richard Feynman suggested that a positron is an electron traveling
backward in time. If this is so, the Universe may well be a few
quarks traveling back and forth in space and time.

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