Superluminal Quantum Models of the Electron and the Photon

There is currently no generally accepted 3D spatial model of the electron or the photon. The electron’s properties such as its spin and magnetic moment are considered to be intrinsic, non-spatial properties, and the electron is considered to be point-like in the theory of quantum electrodynamics.

According to the superluminal quantum models, the electron and the photon are each composed of one point-like quantum. The electron’s quantum moves superluminally 57% of the time and subluminally 43% of the time in a closed helical trajectory. The photon’s quantum always moves superluminally in an open helical trajectory. These quanta have a wavelength and a frequency of movement along their trajectories related to their momentum and energy respectively. So these quanta have both wave-like and particle-like properties.

The Dirac equation is the relativistic quantum mechanical equation for the electron. But the Dirac equation doesn’t provide a geometrical structure or picture of the electron itself. It does however provide certain physical characteristics of the electron, such as its spin and its magnetic moment, a well as several physical features related to its rapid Zitterbewegung or “jittery motion” described by Schrodinger in 1930 after analyzing solutions to the Dirac equation for a free electron.

The superluminal quantum model of the electron has many of the properties of the Dirac electron, and has a 3D structure as well. It is generally assumed that an electron cannot be visualized due to its quantum nature and properties. But the superluminal quantum model of the electron can be visualized and its internal trajectory can be described precisely.

May 2009 Powerpoint presentation and article “Transluminal Energy Quantum (TEQ) Model of the Electron” for May 2-5 Denver American Physical Society meeting, in session T14 “New Directions in Particle Theory”.
March/April 2009 Second Quantum Bicycle Conference. A small group of theoretical physicists met (March 29th-April 2nd) in Best, outside Eindhoven Netherlands to discuss the development of the Williamson-van der Mark self-confined photon model. Richard Gauthier presented his transluminal energy quantum model of the electron . John Williamson described his Clifford-Dirac Algebra treatment of the electron.
February 2009 San Francisco Amateur Astronomers presentation “Is Matter Made of Light? The Transluminal Energy Quantum (TEQ) Model of the Electron and the Photon” .
November 2008 Sonoma County Astronomical Society presentation “Is Matter Made of Light?” Introduces the new concept of the Transluminal Energy Quantum (TEQ).
March 2007 Video of the STAIF-2007 presentation “FTL quantum models of the photon and the electron”.
February 2007 FTL quantum models of the photon and the electron , peer-reviewed article published in the Proceedings of STAIF-2007 (Space Technology and Applications International Forum) held on February 11-15, 2007 at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.
February 2007 Powerpoint presentation and PDF version for “FTL quantum models of the photon and the electron” for STAIF-2007.
April 2006 article for April 22-25 Dallas American Physical Society meeting: Superluminal quantum models of the electron and the photon .
April 2006 Powerpoint presentation for April 22-25 Dallas American Physical Society meeting.
April 2006 article: The Dirac equation and the superluminal electron model
February 2006 Superluminal summary article: Is matter made of light?
December 2005 article submitted to physics journal: Superluminal quantum models of the electron and the photon
October 2005 Sacramento APS meeting: Short presentation
2005 article: Superluminal quantum models of the photon and electron
2003 article: Superluminal helical models for the electron and photon Presented at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society, Philadelphia in April 2003, and the American Physical Society/American Association of Physics Teachers regional meeting in Berkeley, CA in November 2003.