(urth) The Severian Behind Curtain #3

[Dave Tallman]

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> This, though not meant seriously, is interesting and inventive. It reminds me (warning: off topic) of Richard Feynman'scomment ... that "I received a telephone call one day at the graduate college at Princeton from Professor Wheeler, in which he said, "Feynman, I know why all electrons have the same charge and the same mass" "Why?" "Because, they are all the same electron!". The idea being that a single electron bounces back and forth from the Big Bang to the Big Crunch, becoming a positron going backwards in time when it "bounces".
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> Or maybe not.
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Interesting. This very theory is referred to in "Seven American Nights." 
The narrator takes it as an established fact in his contemporary physics 
(about a century in our future).