One-person Universe
One day, professor Wheeler from Princeton called Richard Feynman and exclaimed: "Feynman, I know why all electrons have the same charge and the same mass!"
"Why?" asked Feynman.
"Because they are all the same electron, travelling back and forth in time!"
Upon hearing this story, Zarathustra said: "Wheeler was right. Likewise, all the living men are the same man, revived after he dies and carried back in time, for ever and ever, infinitely."
October 9th, 2018
But Martin:
Feynman was not naive: he was a well-known prankster after all. His memoirs are illustrious but I wouldn't vouch 100% for their accuracy, even w.r.t. his advisor, Wheeler, who was only 7 years his senior.
Your quote suggests that the making of Dr Feynman was (partially) due to his meeting some very original thinkers (none of whom was Zarathustra).
I wasn't trying to say anything about Feynman. Does it sound so?
The quote comes almost verbatim from Wikipedia which cites Feynman's Nobel lecture as a source.
Zarathustra, in turn, is a reference to Nietzche's "So spoke Zarathustra" which features the theme of eternal return, although in a somewhat different sense than the above.
http://galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html :)
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. :)
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