ok, i heard a lot about there being 6 or 8 different types of electrons, can anyone explain this to me?? what are the types? how do they differ? and where or in what sort of matter are they each found in? thnx everyone

Asking question will blow your scam.
I have never heard of but one electron. Of course it is very busy.

Well, there's the electron -- and its antiparticle, the positron. It's like a "backwards electron."

Then there's the muon, which is basically just like an electron, but with more mass. They're short-lived particles, and decay into lighter particles. Of course the muon also has its antiparticle.

Finally there's the tau, which is basically just like an even more massive electron. It's very short-lived, and again decays into lighter particles.

There is only one particle called an electron (thank god), but there are several related particles, cousins if you will, that have some similarities.

- Warren

There are certain ideas that say the positron is an electron moving backwards through time. And that there is only ONE electron in the universe and that it `pops` up beside itself ( through tunneling). all electrons are the same... why?

Originally posted by blobrana
There are certain ideas that say the positron is an electron moving backwards through time. And that there is only ONE electron in the universe and that it `pops` up beside itself ( through tunneling). all electrons are the same... why?
Richard Feynman proposed this idea as something of a joke -- and it is one. The reason it's a joke is that it's equivalent to the usual model of many electrons all going forwards in time -- and I mean exactly mathematically equivalent. Since the 'solitary electron' theory cannot make any predictions, its truth cannot be verified or falsified, and the theory is just a limp noodle. When presented with many possible (and equivalent) pictures of reality, you're better off using the one that has the simplest representation of the problem you're trying to solve. I can't think of a single problem where the 'solitary electron' model is the simplest representation of things.

- Warren

As in the new membrane theory...

Electrons can change into other particles even mini black-holes... the direction of time ( according to the Wheeler theory) is given by the creation of an advancing wave and an retarded wave created at an `event` and interacts/interferes with other `waves particles`. An electron may know the position of another electron ( even it-self) by it`s interaction with the retardant/advance wave.
I can think of the EPR experiment that is explained beautifully by this explanation...

Im sure that it did start off as a joke but there may be big implications for the revised string theories.