<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Chip</div><div>   You also wrote" What is it that overcomes the momentum to confine the model in 3 dimensions?"</div><div>    Electron-positron pair production usually happens in the close vicinity of an atomic nucleus, which absorbs momentum and recoils during the e-p production process. The recoiling atomic nucleus has absorbed the excess momentum when a sufficiently energetic photon (with E> 2 mc^2) converts to an electron-positron pair having less forward momentum than the photon carried. But the atomic nucleus exerts an equal and opposite force on the photon during e-p production. This force (or impulse= force x time) on the photon from the atomic nucleus apparently causes the  double-helix photon to destabilize and separate into two separate spin-1/2 charged half-photons which then restabilize  by curling up to form a quantum vortex electron and positron, transferring to the atomic nucleus much of the forward momentum that the spin-1/2 charged half-photons carried as components of the double-helix photon. </div><div>       Richard</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 6:55 AM,  <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richgauthier@gmail.com" target="_blank">richgauthier@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="-ms-word-wrap: break-word;" dir="auto"><div style="-ms-word-wrap: break-word;"><span>Hi Chip and all,<div>   The internally-superluminal charged spin-1/2 half-photon can only travel forward at light-speed  in a linear direction when it moves alongside a second, oppositely-charged spin-1/2 charged half-photon to form a stable (through Coulomb attraction) double-helix photon, in which case both oppositely charged half-photons are also stable in forming the double-helix photon. But when one spin-1/2 half-photon is separated from the other spin-1/2 half-photon during e-p pair production, each separated half-photon becomes unstable, and curls up its trajectory into a MORE STABLE quantum vortex configuration, where it stabilizes itself by constructive-self-interference with its own single-looping Lambda-Compton/2-wavelength quantum wave and zitterbewegung frequency. A double-looping one-Compton-wavelength photon-like object would be inherently UNSTABLE due to destructive seif-interference after one loop, as it would arrive 180 degrees out of phase with its own one-Compton-wavelength quantum wave after one loop. A unstable one-Compton-wavelength (originated from where?) photon-like object would perhaps require force to curve it into an even more unstable, self-interfering double-looping photon model of an electron, But a 1/2 Compton wavelength half-photon forms a stable constructively-self-<wbr>interfering quantum vortex electron without external force.</div></span><div><span>   At least that’s how I see it now. Your comments are welcome.<br></span><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span><div>On Jul 22, 2018, at 9:20 AM, Chip Akins <<a href="mailto:chipakins@gmail.com" target="_blank">chipakins@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_5196363156944367336Apple-interchange-newline"></span><div><div><div class="h5"><div class="m_5196363156944367336WordSection1" style="text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;font-variant-caps:normal"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><span>Hi Richard<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><span>Really nice work!!!<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><span>I have a question you may have already sorted out regarding forces.<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><span>What is the source for the force which causes half of the photon to curl up and form the electron model you propose? What is it that overcomes the momentum to confine the model in 3 dimensions?<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><span>Or do you have another explanation for the cause of the confinement?<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><span>Warmest Regards<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><span>Chip<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></div><div><div style="border-style:solid none none;padding:3pt 0in 0in;border-top-color:rgb(225,225,225);border-top-width:1pt"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><span class="m_5196363156944367336Apple-converted-space"> </span>General [<a href="mailto:general-bounces+chipakins=gmail.com@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org" target="_blank">mailto:general-bounces+<wbr>chipakins=gmail.com@lists.<wbr>natureoflightandparticles.org</a>]<span class="m_5196363156944367336Apple-converted-space"><wbr> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="m_5196363156944367336Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><a href="mailto:richgauthier@gmail.com" target="_blank">richgauthier@gmail.com</a><br><b>Sent:</b><span class="m_5196363156944367336Apple-converted-space"> </span>Sunday, July 22, 2018 10:50 AM<br><b>To:</b><span class="m_5196363156944367336Apple-converted-space"> </span>Nature of Light and Particles - General Discussion <<a href="mailto:general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org" target="_blank">general@lists.<wbr>natureoflightandparticles.org</a>><br><b>Cc:</b><span class="m_5196363156944367336Apple-converted-space"> </span>Oreste Caroppo <<a href="mailto:orestecaroppo@yahoo.it" target="_blank">orestecaroppo@yahoo.it</a>>; martin Mark van der <<a href="mailto:martin.van.der.mark@philips.com" target="_blank">martin.van.der.mark@philips.<wbr>com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="m_5196363156944367336Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [General] Superluminal electron model<u></u><u></u></span></div></div></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Hello Wolfgang, Albrecht, John W, Martin and all,<u></u><u></u></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><span class="m_5196363156944367336apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-size:9pt"> I want to let you know that my new article </span>“<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:9pt;background-color:rgb(241,241,241)">Quantum-Vortex Electron Formed From Superluminal Double-Helix Photon in Electron-Positron Pair Production</span>” is now available at (and can be downloaded from)<span class="m_5196363156944367336Apple-converted-space"> </span><a style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" href="https://richardgauthier.academia.edu/research" target="_blank">https://richardgauthier.<wbr>academia.edu/research</a><span class="m_5196363156944367336Apple-converted-space"> </span>. I welcome your comments. For your convenience I’ve also appended the pdf file below.<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">   Richard<u></u><u></u></div></div></div></div></div><span style="text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important;white-space:normal;font-variant-caps:normal">______________________________<wbr>_________________</span><span><br style="text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;font-variant-caps:normal"><span style="text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important;white-space:normal;font-variant-caps:normal">If you no longer wish to receive communication from the Nature of Light and Particles General Discussion List at <a href="mailto:richgauthier@gmail.com" target="_blank">richgauthier@gmail.com</a></span><br style="text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;font-variant-caps:normal"><span style="text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important;white-space:normal;font-variant-caps:normal"><a href="<a href="http://lists.natureoflightandparticles.org/options.cgi/general-natureoflightandparticles.org/richgauthier%40gmail.com?unsub=1&unsubconfirm=1" target="_blank">http://lists.<wbr>natureoflightandparticles.org/<wbr>options.cgi/general-<wbr>natureoflightandparticles.org/<wbr>richgauthier%40gmail.com?<wbr>unsub=1&unsubconfirm=1</a>"></span><br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