<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Richard,<br><br></div>I'm glad to see you describe the s
orbital electrons as going thru the nuclear region. From your
description, I get the impression that: <br><ol><li>the whole charged photon has a <b>length that is shorter than the electron orbital</b>. Is this true? If so, I agree.<br></li><li>the <b>trajectory is helical</b>.
Does this mean that the center of mass (energy density) moves in a
helical motion about (and offset from) the average orbit? Could you
describe what is helical in your model? I may very well agree with this also.<br></li><li>The orbital <b>path is linear</b>
(but with variable direction). This is seldom expressed or taught. I
agree in principle. The path is certainly more linear (oriented long
ellipse) than circular (which is the shape most students seem to end up
with, unless they accept the QM concept of a cloud). However, the
uncertainty principle indicates that the ang mom L is not exactly zero,
so the path could actually be circular (statistically, delta L <u>></u>
hbar/2 ?). Do the individual shapes belong to individual bound
electrons (until disturbed) or do all bound electrons spend some time in
the various shaped orbits to give a uniform distribution for all
similarly bound electrons, when averaged over a lifetime of
disturbances? <br></li><li>The<b> variable deBroglie wavelength</b> is
an aspect that few people address. I agree with it. However, have you
been able to define what is 'waving' with this wavelength? Is that the
rotation of the helix? Would that imply a single rotation for the helix
per orbit? Or would the number of helical turns per orbit be
sqrt(511,000/13.6) or some other high number? If the high number, what
is waving once per orbit?</li><li>I agree with the energetics.<br></li><li>We are <b>basically in agreement</b>
with our models. However, I have not yet understood if you consider the
electron to be your charged photon (which concept I could agree with)
or if you picture a charged photon to be able to exist and propagate at
the speed of light as a linear structure and can curl into an electron if exposed to an adequate <b>B</b>-field or <b>E</b>-field gradient.<br></li></ol><p>Item 1 is important to me, because I picture the electron to be 1/2 of a photon (perhaps a mm long) coiled about itself into a ball with radius of 1/2 the Compton radius (I used to think that it was the whole Compton radius). The other 1/2 becomes a positron. <br></p><p>Item
2 is important to me because I picture the ang mom axis (the spin axis)
of an electron as precessing about its velocity vector to give the
'helical' motion. This precession is the result of relativity giving a
torque to the electron by increasing the effective mass (reducing the
radius) of the portion of the electron that otherwise would exceed the
velocity of light. The center of mass would follow an elliptical
(perhaps non-helical) path that could be distorted by the effective <b>B</b>-field resulting from the electrons motion (<b>B</b> = d<b>E</b>/dt) about the nuclear charge (the spin-orbit interaction?).</p><p>We
seem to have nearly the same picture, but distinguished by a definition
that could be critical to its understanding. The neutron is not stable
outside of a nucleus. Is your charged photon stable outside of its
electron configuration?</p><p>Andrew</p>____________________________<br>Tue, May 12, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Richard Gauthier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richgauthier@gmail.com" target="_blank">richgauthier@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>Andrew and Martin,<div>
I think it would be a good challenge for anyone with a single-looped or
double-looped photon model of an electron to model their electron in
the 1s atomic state of hydrogen (where n=1, l=0, ml=0 and ms = + or -
1/2 hbar) where the electron has zero hbar atomic angular momentum even
though it has internal electron spin 1/2 hbar. I model the electron here
as oscillating back and forth linearly through the center of the atom
as a charged photon with a helical trajectory of variable pitch and
radius, with a total energy of E=mc^2 -13.6 eV and a maximum kinetic
energy when the helically circulating charged photon passes the nucleus,
generating a variable de Broglie wavelength along its trajectory
(because its longitudinal momentum is changing as it oscillates in the
atom) and making one complete de Broglie path per oscillation. The most
probable position of the charged photon (the electron) to be detected is
at 1 Bohr radius ao (as predicted by QM for the hydrogen atom) because
the charged photon obeys the Schrodinger equation (in the
non-relativistic approximation). If the 1s electron (charged photon)
absorbs an uncharged photon of energy 13.6 eV, the hydrogen atom is
ionized with the charged photon now having energy E=mc^2 .</div><div> Richard</div> <br></div>