[General] Position

[Andrew Meulenberg]

Dear Richard,

In looking at your presentation, I was concerned about what the charged
photon was supposed to be. Is it an electron? I refer to the photonic
electron as general model for an electron that is derived from all or a
portion of a photon and still retains much of the photon's characteristics.
Are you referring to a specific model of a similar creature? Or, are you
refering to a strange photon of a type that, under special circumstances,
becomes an electron?

Andrew
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On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 9:17 PM, Richard Gauthier <richgauthier at gmail.com>
wrote:
Chandra, Andrew and others,
    My presentation at APS in Baltimore on Tuesday went well in that in 10
minutes I presented the material as planned. The session had about 10
attendees, and was moderated by a professor of theoretical high energy
physics from SLAC (This was very good). My powerpoint for the session is
attached below.

The moderator asked a question indicating that she had misunderstood
(perhaps because of the way I expressed it) a main idea in my electron
model. She thought that because I proposed that the electron is a
circulating charged photon, that this implies that gamma for the electron
model is infinite, making the model absurd. But in the model, while the
circulating charged photon's velocity is c along its helical path, it is
the charged photon's longitudinal component velocity v that corresponds to
v of the electron. The experimentally measured velocity v of the electron
is always less than c, so gamma in the model is normal and not infinite. I
didn't have time to clarify this to her after my talk so I will try to do
so by email. I hope no one in this group has the professor's
misunderstanding of my model on this point.
      Richard
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