What "out there" really is

It has been said that there is no way to distinguish one electron from another. That is to say, in a Feynman Diagram, 3 electrons that occur as a result of two separate collisions can be correctly viewed as one electron moving forward in time, interacting with another particle as a collision then moving backwards in time to a second collision that causes this electron to begin moving forward in time. It appears to be three electrons but this is purely a matter of how you care to view it (a matter of opinion). There is no way to prove it is not the same electron.

It has also been said that an electron is merely a manifestation of a vibrating "string." This string, should it choose to vibrate in a different way, would then appear to us as a different kind of particle. Can it therefore be said that we could replace the three electrons in the previous paragraph with three different particles? A neutron decays and produces (a proton and) an electron which then annihilates with a positron. Or the positron moves forward in time until it becomes an electron then moves backwards in time until it combines with a proton to produce a neutron.

Since there is no way to really say that the positron, the electron and the neutron are distinct, separate entities - is it wholly outrageous to imagine this on a larger scale? On the largest scale? That, perhaps, in all of the universe there is just one particle? One particle outside of time. With all of infinity at its disposal. Interacting with itself. Carving out the entire universe. A true "God Particle."

In the context of the VR contruct, described in previous posts, is it possible to say that the "out there" I have been referring to is actually just this one particle. This one particle creating your larynx and the computer in front of you and the star millions of light years away and creating the light it sent to you over this vast distance.

Since the particle is capable of moving backwards and forwards in time, unfettered by the limits of time, it has literally "all the time in the universe" to produce this for you. It can not be said to be doing this slowly or quickly since those words describe something that is forced by time to be one or the other.

Since particles can be described also as waves can this particle not also be described as a wave? And since it appears to us as many particles interacting with itself it can also be described as many waveforms interacting with each other. If this is true then perhaps the one particle you are interacting with to create your VR construct can be described as just a very elaborate waveform. A single omnipresent particle producing an eleborate waveform for you to interact with so that you can create [what appears to you to be] a star millions of miles away, a mountain a mile away and a house across the street. Everything around you. Everything that appears to be the wide world you live in is really just a Virtual reality contruct composed of the interaction between your consciousness and an entity producing an extremely complex waveform.

External vs Internal

The VR contruct is personal to you. It is an immediate product of your interaction with the "out there." It is not the "out there" but it is constructed in conjunction with the "out there."

Consider the light from a distant star. When you "look" at a starry night the distant star that you see is not actually out there. In fact, there's a distinct possibility that the star you are looking at no longer exists. So what is it that you are looking at? It's the light that made it all the way to your eye.

You are looking back in time, in a sense, except that you are not time traveling. The light has traveled through time and distance to get to you. The item you refer to in your mind as 'the star you are looking at' is a product of the external world interacting with your eye. Interacting with you. You created this star with help from the external world.

The external world you perceive directly as your personal Virtual Reality Construct is not "out there." It is representative of "out there" but differs in many ways. One of the demonstrable ways is that it is localized in space and time to yourself whereas the "out there" is not. The star you are seeing may no longer exist; yet for you, it exists as the light it cast off millions of years ago. "Out there" (whatever that means) it is gone but for you it is still real and existing. In this way the dissonance between what you see and what is "out there" can be demonstrated.

Light from a mountain a mile away is the same. Light from the house across the street is the same. Light from your computer screen you are looking at right now is the same. The sound of you typing is the same. The sound of your own voice is the same. This particular difference is much, much more subtle in the everyday items but it is there just the same.

The thought you are thinking right now is not the same.