I was wondering about the plausibility of a "joke theory" I saw in an online web comic (www.qwantz.com not sure where it is anymore though). Essentially it suggested that all electrons are the same electron except it just travels through time - explaining their being identical.

Originally I almost dismissed the idea pretty quickly. However, since reading the most recent New Scientist in which the main article said that quantum particles such as electrons and photons have no place on the arrow of time (or something like that). It seems that this theory is more plausible if not just for me.

At least in the case that the electron has "failed to kill itself" (/will fail to kill itself / is currently failing to kill itself).

Thanks for your views and help in advance!

I have had this crazy idea about the nature of matter in my head for the last 10 years and I would like someone to help me understand why it’s crazy.

Is it possible that matter could be the fabric of space curved in such a way that it forms a semi-stable structure? The types of elementary particles possible could be limited by the possible stable arrangements of groups of these space-time ‘knots’ (the quarks within a proton for example). If gravity manifests as space time curvature why not take the next logical step and ask could matter be a different kind of space-time curvature/structure?

It would have the implication that matter is not freely able to move through space but is attached (and is part of) that space and would therefore be more resistant to movement the faster you try to move it. Is the impossibility of light speed travel an expression of the elasticity of the fabric of space?

Could the reason that energy moves in discrete units be that this is one of the only stable arrangement of the fabric of space that will allow the energy to leave the particle?

I understand that I have used space-time and the fabric of space interchangeably. I am referring to the underlying fabric of space.

Please unpick my craziness.