Published on 03/10/2007

This document provides an overview of Dr. Richard Gauthier's "Superluminal Quantum Models of the Electron and the Photon", as presented at STAIF 2007. 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...

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This document provides an overview of Dr. Richard Gauthier's "Superluminal Quantum Models of the Electron and the Photon", as presented at STAIF 2007. 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...

"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, as well as several physical features related to its rapid Zitterbewegung or "jittery motion" described by Schroedinger 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." - Dr. Richard Gauthier

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