<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hello Chip, John D, Alex, John W, Vivian, Grahame, Chandra, John M, Andrew W, Andrew M, Albrecht, and all,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A circling photon-like object must have inertial mass Eo/c^2 where Eo=0.511MeV, if it is modeling a resting electron. Are we all in agreement on this? Still, some fundamental questions remain: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1) What is the origin of the circling photon-like object’s inertial mass? </div><div class="">2) What is the nature of that circling photon-like object? </div><div class="">3) Does the circling photon-like object have spin 1 or spin 1/2 or something else? </div><div class="">4) Is it the circling photon-like object charged or uncharged or something else? </div><div class="">5) Where does the circling photon-like object’s electric charge reside or what gives rise to the charge? — is the charge localized or distributed or something else? </div><div class="">6) Does the circling photon-like object change its spin as viewed from different reference frames (stationary versus moving electron)? </div><div class="">7) Are there spatial models for the circling photon-like object? </div><div class="">8) What is the radius of the photon-like object? </div><div class="">9) Do the various models distinguish between the trajectory of the circling photon-like object and the radius of the photon-like object? </div><div class="">10) How does the trajectory of the photon-like object change with particle speed? Is the trajectory a helix or something else?</div><div class="">11) How does the radius of the photon-like object moving along its trajectory change with electron speed?</div><div class="">12) Is trajectory even meaningful for a circling photon-like object?</div><div class="">13) How does a photon-like object composing an electron relate to electron-positron pair production and annihilation?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It would be great to get clear statements of our various views on these and any unresolved related questions, and hopefully make more progress towards resolving some of these questions. You don’t need to have an electron model to give your inputs about these questions.</div><div><p class="MsoNormal">I’ve put together an article on the derivation of inertial mass for
circling photon-like particles: “Derivation of the inertial mass m=Eo/c^2 for an
electron composed of a circling spin-1/2 charged photon", at <span style="color:#386EFF;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none" class=""><a href="http://www.superluminalquantum.org/Gauthier_Derivation_of_the_Inertial_Mass_28_Feb_2017.pdf" class="">www.superluminalquantum.org/Gauthier_Derivation_of_the_Inertial_Mass_28_Feb_2017.pdf</a> </span> The pdf file is also attached below. The article emphasizes the inertial mass of a resting electron, but refers to work on the relativistic electron also.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I would appreciate hearing any comments or criticisms, as well suggested answers to any of the above burning questions.</p><div class=""> Richard</div><div class=""></div></div></body></html>