It's a (mathematically) multidimensional thing; if things can "move" there are clearly dimensions those things can be spread across.
There are lots of things we can't know, but it's like toothpaste; if we posit certain things as fixed, if our observations mean anything, something else has to vary.
> There are lots of things we can't know, but it's like toothpaste; if we posit certain things as fixed, if our observations mean anything, something else has to vary.
...how is that like toothpaste?
I don't disagree with what you're saying, but... toothpaste?
Re:One-electron universe
by kenbellows on Friday February 06, 2015 @09:49AM
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Seconded. Your analogy is like a banana tree; no matter how many things vary, a horse is not an elephant.
An extrapolation from the one-electron-universe hypothesis is that the entire universe exists within a single point - this is why constants are constant across the universe, why matter is the same everywhere, why particles share properties, how tunnelling works, etc. - we just perceive it as being uncompacted from our reference frame, whatever or wherever that may be. Elements of some SUSY theories touch on this too - that there is only one string, that the universe is a projection from higher dimensions "curled up" in a planck-scale point....
Frankly, we can't know, and I'm not sure that we ever really can, due to the limitations of our faculties, and the rooting of our "reality" in how this particular collection of molecular machinery interacts with other physicality around it.