[General] position: Electron, a photon with toroidal topology?

[Andrew Meulenberg]

Dear John W. & Martin,

I just finished rereading your '97 paper. It is excellent and I agree with
most of it. After your response to the question below, I would raise
questions about a few points.

The paper reflects your thinking at the time that is now nearly 20 years
old. Do you have areas for which you have significantly altered your views
from that in the paper? If so, could you please enumerate them? They might
be worth a brief paper to the same journal. This update could be a lead- in
for the original paper to be used as a 'platform' on which to base a number
of papers. It might become the basis of the 'cascade' of publications
needed to bring this this topic to the forefront of physics.

Were there any published responses to the '97 paper or citations to it? You
have mentioned other people who have similar ideas or backgrounds that
would be useful to include. It would be worthwhile giving them the
opportunity to join the group, or at least be aware of our activity in the
area. If you know them personally it would be easy to invite them.

If things grow the way I expect, there may be a need for the Nature of
Light conference to become an annual affair as we extend photonic-particle
physics beyond the electron. Of course, Chandra will need more help to pull
that off. Alternatively, or in addition, we might even need to have a
session on the topic included in one of the physics (or SPIE) conferences
in Europe.

Andrew
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