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I can't... wut!?
I have seen a few cases where "out of stock" messages were used instead of "server is overloaded". Still, though.
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Obviously if they didn't have limited quantities of ones and zeros they wouldn't have an excuse to charge $29.99 for it. You think those things grow on trees?
It could be that the publisher is disputing their contract with the distributor. If that's the case they'll suspend sales and call it "out of stock" until negotiations are complete.
Just get a used copy, it's much cheaper.
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Quiet you, you're being too sensible.
I totally lol'd.
Hmm. Guess they ran out of electrons.
1322217 eBooks are full of electrons (well, when they're being read). They're already well-used by about 13.7 billion years! Or something.
1322209 The print version is in stock. Maybe they haven't finished converting it to an e-book yet.
1322309 Print versions are housed in a warehouse and already paid for, typically, so a contract dispute wouldn't likely affect their ability to ship those. Once you have product in hand, you can sell it unless the person you got it from wants to issue you a refund.
But yeah it might not be converted yet. But then I don't even know what book we're talking about here.
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Electrons might be a little bit older than that. Just gotta bend the cosmological principle a smidge so we can fit all these positrons somewhere.
1322329 One electron? We are SO being overcharged for ebooks! And everything else; It's all used! In fact, by this theory, it's also me and I'm time traveling. Wheeee!
Ahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
1322315 No, looks like it's just stupidity. The Deluxe edition is just the normal book plus a 1-year website subscription. The normal e-book is still "in stock".
1322329 If that were true it would be the single most hilarious thing ever to happen in the history of things happening.
All electrons are the same electron. That would be awesome.
Took me a minute to realize this was an e-book. In my defense...well....I think the whole point here sums up my defense quite nicely.
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I think the bigger problem with that theory is that electrons can be created and destroyed (see electron-positron annihilation and Type II supernova for the common cases). That article is very misleading as well. Electrons can be distinguishable, as can all fermions. This is because electrons sharing all other physical properties cannot overlap in spacetime. Also, the author of that article has no idea what "time" means, and his calculations don't take black holes into account.
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Overcharged... pun intended?
1327238 Um... YEAH! I intended to do that. Yep. Sure did...
1327238 In electron-positron annihilation, you see an electron and a positron meet, and then a release of energy. Alternately, you see an electron move forward in time, and encounter exactly sufficient energy to reverse its direction, sending it back in time as a positron.
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This is weird, but not impossible I guess. Even weirder is the idea that this could be testable: just put an electron and a positron together in a box and see how long it takes for them to annihilate.
If the electron needs to be hit by two photons to become a positron, then the chance of annihilation at any given time should be much smaller than the current model predicts, and so the process should take much longer than expected. This is because in the current model, only two particles need to overlap to annihilate. In the single-electron case, three or more particles need to overlap to "annihilate". (This assumes that photons involved have roughly equal energies to the electron and positron, which I believe is the common case)
If the experiment turns out as the current model predicts, then I believe there are only two possibilities: (1) the universe is not "doing its thing" on a single electron moving forwards and backwards in time and the single-electron theory is false, or (2) the universe can predict "ahead of time" when to change around probabilities to get the positron it "eventually" needs. The latter case results in a universe that may not be Turing-computable and could potentially make programmers significantly more overpowered than they already are. The universe wouldn't do that to us, so we can safely assume that the single-electron theory is false in this case.
(The real reason that the single-electron theory is false is that it violates my intuition)