Understanding the masses of elementary particles: a step towards understanding the massless photon?

K. O. Greulich

doi:10.1117/12.892277

28 September 2011 Understanding the masses of elementary particles: a step towards understanding the massless photon?

K. O. Greulich

Proceedings Volume 8121, The Nature of Light: What are Photons? IV; 81210H (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.892277
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2011, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

A so far unnoticed simple explanation of elementary particle masses is given by m = N * m_electron/α, where alpha (=1/137) is the fine structure constant. On the other hand photons can be described by two oppositely oscillating clouds of e / √α elementary charges. Such a model describes a number of features of the photon in a quantitatively correct manner. For example, the energy of the oscillating clouds is E = h ν, the spin is 1 and the spatial dimension is λ / 2 π. When the charge e / √α is assigned to the Planck mass m_Pl, the resulting charge density is e / (m_Pl√α) = 8,62 * 10^-11 Cb / kg. This is identical to √ (G / k_o) where G is the gravitational constant and k_o the Coulomb constant. When one assigns this very small charge density to any matter, gravitation can be completely described as Coulomb interaction between such charges of the corresponding masses. Thus, there is a tight quantitative connection between the photon, nonzero rest masses and gravitation / Coulomb interaction.

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K. O. Greulich "Understanding the masses of elementary particles: a step towards understanding the massless photon?", Proc. SPIE 8121, The Nature of Light: What are Photons? IV, 81210H (28 September 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.892277

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