The Electron Is a Charged Photon

A charged photon and its light-speed helical trajectory form a surprising new solution to the relativistic electron’s energy-momentum equation E = pc +mc . This charged photon is a new model for the electron, and quantitatively resembles the lightspeed electron described by Dirac. His relativistic quantum mechanical equation for the electron was derived from the above energy-momentum equation. While the electron’s energy is E = ! mc , the charged photon’s energy is E = ! mc = h" . The electron’s relativistic momentum p = ! mv is the longitudinal component of the charged photon’s helically circulating momentum ptotal = ! mc . At any electron speed, the charged photon has an internally circulating transverse momentum ptrans = mc , which at the helical radius Ro = !Compton / 4" = 1.93#10 m for a resting electron produces the z -component ! / 2 of the electron’s spin. The right and left turning directions of the charged photon’s helical trajectory correspond to a spin up ( sz = ! / 2 ) and spin down ( sz = !! / 2 ) electron. The negative and positive possible charges of the charged photon correspond to the electron and the positron. The circulating charged photon at the helical radius Ro produces onehalf of the electron’s pre-QED magnetic moment μ = !μBohr predicted by the Dirac equation. There is a relativistic variation with the electron’s speed v of the charged photon’s helical radius R = Ro /! 2 and its helical pitch P = (2!v /" c)Ro . The pitch has a maximum value Pmax = !Ro when the electron’s speed is v = c / 2 . The decreasing charged photon’s helical radius R = Ro /! 2 with the electron’s increasing speed v quantitatively explains why the electron appears so small (<10m ) in high-energy electron scattering experiments, even though the characteristic radius of the circulating charged photon model for the electron is Ro .