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!

Is time something more than just the way we explain that any movement occurred before or after another? nothing can happen at exactly the same moment so could time just be the order of everything? is it just a product of language that time cannot be explained, since the only way we can describe a progression of events is with vocabulary which is intrinsically linked to time? Would be great if someone has something real to say on this :D

I remember hearing a while back, on a science podcast by Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki, that it is possible that memory is stored throughout the body aswel as in the brain. I'm not sure how correct this theory is, but if it is in fact true could it have any link to 'Phantom limbs'? I was thinking that maybe the body remembers how, an arm for example, moves or feels even when no longer there. This maybe sends signals to the brain (which knows the arm isn't there) but because the memory is stored elsewhere it causes confusion and leads you to interpret the memory as present truth. Could this be at all possible?