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From: wsmith@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Alternate Universe
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Date: Thu, 20-Mar-86 14:01:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 20 14:01:00 1986
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Nf-From: uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU!wsmith    Mar 20 13:01:00 1986


Postulate a new universe with elementary particles that look, smell and taste
like our electrons, quarks, photons etc.   The difference is that charge
is a normal random variable in time with mean the same as our mean for
each particle and a standard deviation of for a particle of charge q,   
10^-6*q.

Would such a universe have noticible differences from our own?   What if
the 10^-6 were changed to 10^-3?

The charge for each electron would be varying randomly as a function of time.

Bill Smith
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