Richard Gauthier

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Has it been resolved whether or not a photon has inertial mass M=E/c^2?

Sometimes it is said that a photon has zero invariant mass m yet it has a relativistic mass M=E/c^2. Are both correct? Is the photon's inertial mass also equal to M=E/c^2? What is the latest...

02 February 2018 9,737 57 View

Is an electron a helically-circulating spin-1/2 charged photon that generates the de Broglie wavelength?

Could photons exist in two varieties, spin 1 for the normal photon and spin-1/2 for the electron? Dirac believed electrons actually travel at light speed but can only be observed traveling at...

08 August 2015 931 26 View

Can an electron be a charged photon with spin 1/2 hbar?

Usually photons are considered to be uncharged and to have spin 1 hbar. But could a variety of photon have spin 1/2 hbar if it is electrically charged and forms an electron? What if such a charged...

06 June 2015 5,533 37 View

Does the electron travel at the speed of light?

A new hypothesis suggests that the electron is a photon that carries the electron's charge at the speed of light. Dirac insisted in his Nobel Prize lecture that the electron travels at the speed...

09 September 2014 3,450 5 View

Could the universe have emerged from a single quantum particle, a cosmic quantum?

In 1931 Georges Lemaître, the father of the big bang, hypothesized that a single quantum particle (primeval atom) composed the universe at the beginning stage: “If we go back in the course of time...

03 March 2013 3,973 37 View