Agreed. I sometimes have to chuckle/feel sad for Theoretical
Physics. I enjoy the flights of fancy and it's awesome when they
seem to get something right... yet they're so strongly dependent
upon sameness; numbers always working, electrons _must_ be
treated as spherical, identical; in fact, the whole
conceptualization of the particle models _need_ them to be
"perfect spheres"... for the math to work... it's actually
amazing some of it works at all!
Yet, I believe they're working with similarity; a "close enough"
in forms that fit together like keys and locks that are "close
enough"; but I think that's because we're working with, what
will turn out to be, very "sloppy" similarities. That is to say,
when our abilities to peer deeper still improve, they'll be
distinctions.
Come to think of it... since no two electrons (or those things
in the electron family - is it hadrons or fermions? I forget) -
can occupy the same spacetime; at best being "superimposed"
(which SHOULDN'T be as spooky as they make it out to be, but
whatever.. it funds them) - they *are* distinct and unique.
They have to IGNORE TIME to make it work. Or they have to ignore
LOCATION to make it work. Or they have to ignore SOMETHING to
make it work.
But... just because something works doesn't mean it's correct..
just that it works.
