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<DIV>Richard,</DIV>
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<DIV>Perhaps he was looking for something more succinct. Such as <EM>the photon
is a boson and the electron is a fermion because two waves can ride over one
another but two vortices cannot overlap</EM>. </DIV>
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<DIV>But perhaps you were always going to get the brush-off. Such is life.
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<DIV>Regards</DIV>
<DIV>John D</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=richgauthier@gmail.com
href="mailto:richgauthier@gmail.com">Richard Gauthier</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, February 18, 2015 6:27 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=johnduffield@btconnect.com
href="mailto:johnduffield@btconnect.com">John Duffield</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=afokay@gmail.com href="mailto:afokay@gmail.com">Adam
K</A> ; <A title=John.Williamson@glasgow.ac.uk
href="mailto:John.Williamson@glasgow.ac.uk">John Williamson</A> ; <A
title=chandra@phys.uconn.edu href="mailto:chandra@phys.uconn.edu">chandra</A> ;
<A title=af.kracklauer@web.de href="mailto:af.kracklauer@web.de">A. F.
Kracklauer</A> ; <A title=sleary@vavi.co.uk
href="mailto:sleary@vavi.co.uk">Stephen Leary</A> ; <A title=rpenland@gmail.com
href="mailto:rpenland@gmail.com">Ralph Penland</A> ; <A title=wfhagen@gmail.com
href="mailto:wfhagen@gmail.com">wfhagen@gmail.com</A> ; <A
title=h.a.de.raedt@rug.nl href="mailto:h.a.de.raedt@rug.nl">Hans De Raedt</A> ;
<A title=martin.van.der.mark@philips.com
href="mailto:martin.van.der.mark@philips.com">Mark, Martin van der</A> ; <A
title=etherdais@gmail.com href="mailto:etherdais@gmail.com">David Saint John</A>
; <A title=Tim.Drysdale@glasgow.ac.uk
href="mailto:Tim.Drysdale@glasgow.ac.uk">Timothy Drysdale</A> ; <A
title=osmera@fme.vutbr.cz href="mailto:osmera@fme.vutbr.cz">CSc.</A> ; <A
title=Jonathan.Weaver@glasgow.ac.uk
href="mailto:Jonathan.Weaver@glasgow.ac.uk">Jonathan Weaver</A> ; <A
title=QKB.Enterprises@gmail.com
href="mailto:QKB.Enterprises@gmail.com">Rachel</A> ; <A
title=Robert.Hadfield@glasgow.ac.uk
href="mailto:Robert.Hadfield@glasgow.ac.uk">Robert Hadfield</A> ; <A
title=hudginswr@msn.com href="mailto:hudginswr@msn.com">robert hudgins</A> ; <A
title=viv@etpsemra.com.au href="mailto:viv@etpsemra.com.au">Vivian Robinson</A>
; <A title=ninasobieraj@tlen.pl
href="mailto:ninasobieraj@tlen.pl">ninasobieraj</A> ; <A
title=ambroselli@phys.uconn.edu
href="mailto:ambroselli@phys.uconn.edu">ambroselli@phys.uconn.edu</A> ; <A
title=matousek@fme.vutbr.cz href="mailto:matousek@fme.vutbr.cz">'doc. Ing.
Radomil Matoušek</A> ; <A title=er.mayankdrolia@gmail.com
href="mailto:er.mayankdrolia@gmail.com">Mayank Drolia</A> ; <A
title=mules333@gmail.com href="mailto:mules333@gmail.com">Andrew Meulenberg</A>
; <A title=fionavdburgt@gmail.com href="mailto:fionavdburgt@gmail.com">Fiona van
der Burgt</A> ; <A title=mpbw1879@yahoo.co.uk
href="mailto:mpbw1879@yahoo.co.uk">Michael Wright</A> ; <A
title=nick_green@blueyonder.co.uk href="mailto:nick_green@blueyonder.co.uk">Nick
Green</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Nobelist dialogue</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>John and all,</DIV>
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<DIV>A short dialogue follows that I just concluded with a physics Nobel
laureate. Comments are welcome.</DIV>
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<DIV>Hello Professor,<BR> 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 <A
href="http://academia.edu/">academia.edu</A> at <A
href="https://www.academia.edu/10527918/The_Electron_is_a_Charged_Photon_with_the_de_Broglie_Wavelength">https://www.academia.edu/10527918/The_Electron_is_a_Charged_Photon_with_the_de_Broglie_Wavelength</A>
and I have attached the article for your convenience.<BR> Is this a topic
that you would be interested in discussing?</DIV>
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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,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
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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.</DIV>
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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,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
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