<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hello all,</div><div class=""> I thought some of you might like to see a new electron model, composed of a superluminal spin-1/2 charged half-photon. In the stationary electron model the superluminal energy quantum moves along the surface of a horn torus, with an internal frequency equal to the zitterbewegung frequency f=2mc^2/h. The relativistic electron model contracts with increasing gamma. The electron model’s closed helix's radius is R=hbar/2mc as in several electron models. I’ve started writing a short paper about the model. The working title: “Is the electron a superluminal half-photon with toroidal topology?” The electron model is formed from one wavelength of the helical trajectory of one of the two half-photons composing a double-helix photon energetically capable of producing an electron-positron pair in e-p pair production, i.e. with photon energy E=2mc^2 and photon frequency equal to the electron’s zitterbewegung frequency f=2mc^2/h. The helical radius of this half-photon is R = Lcompton/4pi = hbar/2mc. The circulating superrluminal particle is actually a point-like particle. The resting electron model's energy Eo will be one-half of the originating photon’s minimum energy of 2mc^2, and therefore Eo=mc^2.</div><div class=""> Comments or questions?</div><div class=""> Richard </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="9563BD1E-74BE-419C-A2D7-2720E22AED25" src="cid:30AEFC4C-8F86-4F50-88DB-2B385B1921A7@hsd1.ca.comcast.net." class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="C917E5D3-59BD-4971-A58F-45314ED8F45F" src="cid:FB16EE05-8366-468E-BC31-3E797168DBA9@hsd1.ca.comcast.net." class=""></div></body></html>