Transluminal-Energy Quantum Models of the Photon and the Electron

A photon is modeled by an uncharged transluminal energy quantum (TEQ) moving at c sqrt(2) along an open 45-degree helical trajectory with radius R=Lambda/2pi, (where Lambda is the helical pitch or wavelength of the photon). A transluminal spatial model of an electron is composed of a charged pointlike transluminal energy quantum circulating at an extremely high frequency of 2.5 x 10^20 hz in a closed, double-looped helical trajectory whose helical pitch or wavelength is one Compton wavelength h/mc. The transluminal energy quantum has energy and momentum but not rest mass, so its speed is not limited by c. The TEQ’s speed is superluminal 57% of the time and subluminal 43% of the time, passing through c twice in each trajectory cycle. The TEQ’s maximum speed in the electron’s rest frame is 2.516 c and its minimum speed is c/sqrt(2), or .707 c . The electron model’s helical trajectory parameters are selected to produce the electron’s spin hbar/2 and approximate (without small QED corrections) magnetic moment ehbar/2m (the Bohr magneton) as well as its Dirac equation-related “jittery motion” (zitterbewegung) angular frequency 2mc^2/hbar, amplitude hbar/2mc and internal speed c. The two possible helicities of the electron model correspond to the electron and the positron. With these models, an electron is like a closed circulating photon. The electron’s inertia is proposed to be related to the electron model’s circulating internal momentum mc.