[General] Nobelist dialogue

[John Duffield]

Richard,

Perhaps he was looking for something more succinct. Such as the photon is a boson and the electron is a fermion because two waves can ride over one another but two vortices cannot overlap. 

But perhaps you were always going to get the brush-off. Such is life.  

Regards
John D


From: Richard Gauthier 
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Subject: Nobelist dialogue

John and all,

A short dialogue follows that I just concluded with a physics Nobel laureate. Comments are welcome.

Hello Professor,
   A Ph.D. student at IQC suggested that I might meet you this summer at IQC to discuss a rather out-of-the-box idea -- that the electron is a charged photon having the de Broglie wavelength. I have an article on this topic which I will be presenting at the April APS meeting in Baltimore and at the SPIE photonics conference in San Diego in July at a session on “What is the photon”. Currently the article is on academia.edu at https://www.academia.edu/10527918/The_Electron_is_a_Charged_Photon_with_the_de_Broglie_Wavelength and I have attached the article for your convenience.
  Is this a topic that you would be interested in discussing?

Dear Mr.Gauthier,
   If your theory can explain clearly (as shown rather unambiguously by experiment) why the electron is  a fermion and the photon a boson, I think a discussion might be worth while, otherwise not. With best wishes,
       


Hello Professor, 
    The short answer in my charged photon hypothesis is that a charged photon (with charge + or - e) is a fermion while an uncharged photon is a boson. So there is zero contradiction with unambiguous experiments about the electron (my hypothesized charged photon, with charge -e for an electron and +e for a positron)  being a fermion and the usual uncharged photon being a boson. The next level answer is that the idea that an electron could be a charged photon was apparently missed by de Broglie and others when de Broglie formulated E=mc^2=hf for a resting electron and E= gamma mc^2 = hf for a moving electron. This is the energy equation for a photon that has a wavelength lambda = h/(gamma m c), and that may be helically circulating as mathematically suggested by Hestene’s and Rivas’ analysis of the Dirac equation (referenced in my article) which predicts a light-speed helical motion of the electron’s charge, and is supported by Dirac’s own claim that the electron moves at light-speed but only sub-luminal speed is detected for it. It’s a short step to the de Broglie wavelength h/(gamma mv) for the longitudinal wavelength of the light-speed helical charged photon model of the electron, and the proposal that quantum wave functions for the electron are generated by this model.

Dear Mr.Gauthier,
    I’m afraid that our ideas about what constitutes a persuasive argument in physics seem to be so different that I doubt whether a meeting would be useful.Sorry,
          


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