modeling the electron as a circulating charged photon
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Modeling the Electron as a Circula3ng Charged Photon
Richard Gauthier Santa Rosa Junior College
APS Regional Mee8ng, Reno, Nevada October 23-‐25, 2014
Paul Dirac Quote from Nobel Prize Lecture
“It is found that an electron which seems to us to be moving slowly, must actually have a very high frequency oscillatory mo8on of small amplitude superposed on the regular mo8on which appears to us. As a result of this oscillatory mo8on, the velocity of the electron at any 8me equals the velocity of light. This is a predic8on which cannot be directly verified by experiment, since the frequency of the oscillatory mo8on is so high and its amplitude is so small. But one must believe in this consequence of the theory, since other consequences of the theory which are inseparably bound up with this one, such as the law of scaRering of light by an electron, are confirmed by experiment.”
Electron modeled by circula3ng charged photon
mc mc! mc
! mv
c
v
! / 2mc!2
!!
Eelectron = ! mc2
Ephoton = ! mc2 = h"
Parametric equa3ons for light-‐speed helical trajectory of charged photon that
models the electron x(t) = (Ro /!
2 )cos(! ct / Ro )y(t) = ±(Ro /!
2 )sin(! ct / Ro )z(t) = vt
Where Ro = ! / 2mc = 1.93! 10"13m
comes from the Dirac equa8on for the electron
Corresponding proper3es of charged photon and electron
Charged Photon Electron
E = ! mc2 = h" E = ! mc2
pphoton = ! mc pelectron = ! mvelectronvelectron = ccos!pelectron = pphoton cos!
is the forward angle that the charged photon’s helix makes with the longitudinal direc8on. !
Rela3vis3c Energy-‐Momentum Equa3ons for Electron and Charged Photon
Eelectron2 = (pelectron )2c2 +m2c4
Ephoton2 = (pphoton longitudinal )
2c2 +m2c4
(pphotonc)2 = (pphoton longitudinal )2c2 +m2c4
(pphoton )2 = (pphoton longitudinal )2 + (mc)2
(pphoton )2 = (pphoton longitudinal )2 + (pphoton transverse )
2
Spin of charged photon
Sz of Electron's spin=Sz of charged photon = ± Radius of photon's helix ! pphoton transverse
=Ro ! pphoton transverse
= ±(! / 2mc)! (mc) = ± !/2
Sz
Spin-‐up and Spin-‐down of charged photon model
• Right-‐turning helical mo8on of charged photon produces the spin-‐up value of the electron’s spin-‐component . LeZ-‐turning helical mo8on of the charged photon produces the spin-‐down value of the electron’s spin-‐component
• is always parallel or an8-‐parallel to the electron’s velocity vector
Sz = ! / 2
Sz = !! / 2Sz
Radius of the charged photon’s helical path
The radius of the charged photon’s helix in the electron model is In high-‐energy electron scaRering at , and
R = Ro /!2 = Ro(1" v
2 / c2 )
! = 5.69 " 104 R = 5.96 !10-23m.29.5GeV
Frequency and wavelength of the charged photon’s circula3ng charge
This frequency is where , the ziRerbewegung frequency of the Dirac electron. As increases with , the wavelength of the charged photon decreases as where In high-‐energy electron scaRering, when and the value of of the charged photon becomes
! = " c / 2#Ro = " ! zitt
! zitt = 2mc2 / h
!!
! = !Compton /"!Compton = h /mc = 2.43"10
#12m.
!
E = 29.5GeV! = 5.69 " 104 !
! = 4.27 "10#17m.
Magne3c moment of the circula3ng charged photon
Light-‐speed circula8on of the charged photon in a circle or helix of radius gives a magne8c moment component , where is the Bohr magneton , the magnitude of predicted for the electron by the Dirac equa8on.
Ro= ! / 2mc
µz= !0.5µ
BohrµBohr e! / 2m
µz
Conclusion
The remarkable quan8ta8ve dynamical and kinema8c correspondences between an electron’s proper8es and the proper8es of a proposed circula8ng charged photon make the circula8ng charged photon a strong candidate as a model for the electron. Though an uncharged photon is a boson with spin 1, a charged photon is proposed to model an electron – a fermion with spin ½.
References • Gauthier, R., “The electron is a charged photon”, 2014,
hRps://www.academia.edu/8635780/The_Electron_Is_a_Charged_Photon
• Gauthier, R., “Transluminal energy quantum models of the photon and the electron”, in R. Amoroso, ed., The Physics of Reality: Space, Time, MaRer, Cosmos”, World Scien8fic, 2013, hRps://www.academia.edu/4429810/Transluminal_Energy_Quantum_Models_of_the_Photon_and_the_Electron
Copyright 2014 by Richard Gauthier Santa Rosa, CA www.superluminalquantum.org [email protected] DOI: 10.13140/2.1.4593.9205