Re: Does "identical" mean "one"?

Michelle Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Fri, 17 Jul 1998 19:35:04 -0700

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