<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear Richard,<br><br></div>I am still recovering from a recent move (last week) of the family from India back to the US. During this period, I had to put physics out of my mind and I lost much of my short term memory of the subject. This loss included (I believe) Montanus' email, which I liked. Once I have regained my equilibrium here, I hope to reconnect with the on-going Nature of Light discussions. <br><br>For the past couple of years, I have had to devote all of my physics time to an issue in "Cold Fusion," the deep electron orbits predicted by the relativistic QM and Dirac equations. This study of electrons with a binding energy in the 500 keV range has led to a maturation of my ideas about the electron, as (in your language) a bound, spin-1/2, charged, photon, and its relativistic interaction with nucleons.<br><br></div>I still need to edit and organize my published and unpublished papers on the subject of light and matter. However, to give a short answer to Montanus' and your questions about radiation from an accelerating photon, I have attached a paper (which you may have refereed).<br><div><div style="margin-left:40px"><font size="1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">A.
Meulenberg, W. R. Hudgins, and R. F. Penland, “The photon to
electron/positron-pair transition,” <i>Proc. SPIE</i>. 9570, The Nature of
Light: What are Photons? VI, 95700S. (September 10, 2015) doi:
10.1117/12.2187489 </span></font>
<br></div><br><div><div><div class="gmail_extra">Critical to the understanding of the connection between radiation (generally photonic) and charge is recognition of the electric field (oscillating in the photon and steady in the electron). Next one must consider what the term acceleration entails. It is the result of an interaction between EM fields from different sources. The photon does not radiate photons; the oscillating dipole field of the interaction of the EM fields of a bound electron and a positive charge does so. Similarly, the interaction between the <br></div><div class="gmail_extra">oscillating EM fields of a photon and the field gradient of a charge can cause 'rectification' of the photon and, if resonant (i.e., quantized), the separation of the fields into unit charges.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Only if one is already comfortable, or at least grappling, with the concept of the electron as a bound photon can this abbreviated picture of pair production make any sense. The closest that the uninitiated can come to the concept is in the 'mixing' of interacting fields and 're-emission' of a photon in Compton scattering. The field interaction is generally ignored because the result can be predicted by simple mathematics alone.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Andrew M.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">PS. my guess is that the spin-1/2 charged photon and Weyl fermion are both virtual particles that exist in a transition between observable states.<br>_ _ _ <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 1:53 AM, Richard Gauthier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richgauthier@gmail.com" target="_blank">richgauthier@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div>Hello Andrew, John W and all,</div><div><br></div><div> Andrew, thanks for the link. A Weyl fermion, though not the same as a spin-1/2 charged photon, could be a step in this direction, since a Weyl fermion is a massless chiral fermion. It also has not been detected as a separate fundamental particle.</div><div><br></div><div> By the way, a new colleague Hans Montanus wrote to me recently “For all the photon models for the electron, always the question raises to me: how can photon be radiated off from an accelerating electron? If the electron is a circling (or double circling in the toroidal model) photon, then it rather is a photon radiated off from an accelerating (the circling photon as a whole) photon. Similarly, pair creation would mean two circling photons coming of from a single (usual, non circling) photon. Do you know if there are models for such processes?”</div><div><br></div><div> Do you have any thoughts on these questions about radiation of a photon from an accelerated circling photon, and pair creation from a single non-circling photon?</div><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div> Richard</div></font></span><div><div class="gmail-h5"><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Aug 1, 2017, at 4:16 AM, Andrew Meulenberg <<a href="mailto:mules333@gmail.com" target="_blank">mules333@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="gmail-m_6608077139837315846Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Dear Richard,<br><br></div>We have demonstrated experimentally that photons can exhibit fermionic as well as bosonic natures. The charged-photon model, as a transient during the transition between photon and lepton pair, can be supported theoretically as well. It may be possible to use additional concepts to support your model:<br><div style="margin-left:40px"><br><a href="http://www.nature.com/news/big-bang-gravitational-effect-observed-in-lab-crystal-1.22338" target="_blank">http://www.nature.com/news/big<wbr>-bang-gravitational-effect-obs<wbr>erved-in-lab-crystal-1.22338</a><span class="gmail-m_6608077139837315846gmail-HOEnZb"><br></span></div><br></div>The Weyl Fermion, (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyl_semimetal" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/<wbr>wiki/Weyl_semimetal</a>), as a charged, massless, particle, might be worth exploring in that context. <br><br></div>I don't have time to explore the concept myself right now; but, I would be interested in your comments, if you (or others) do get the opportunity to look at it.<br><br></div>Andrew M.<br><div><div><div><div><span class="gmail-m_6608077139837315846gmail-HOEnZb"></span><span class="gmail-m_6608077139837315846gmail-HOEnZb"></span><div style="margin-left:40px"><div><div class="gmail-m_6608077139837315846gmail-h5">
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