At every progression step elementary particles emit wave fronts. These wave fronts combine into ultra-high frequency waves. On their turn these waves constitute the potentials of the particle. The contribution of the wave front to the potential is described by the Green's function of the potential.
When the particle suddenly lowers its energy, then the UHF wave gets modulated. The modulated wave is a photon.
Is this a sensible model?
If the particle annihilates, then the wave fronts that have been emitted still propagate with light speed away from their original source. However, no new wave fronts are generated.
The wave fronts of all particles superpose into a huge rather uniform background "potential". This is neither a gravitation potential, nor an electrostatic potential. However, it can be used to explain the existence of inertia.
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