FTL Quantum Models of the Photon and the Electron

A photon is modeled by an uncharged superluminal quantum moving at 1.414c along an open 45‐degree helical trajectory with radius R = λ/2π (where λ is the helical pitch or wavelength). A mostly superluminal spatial model of an electron is composed of a charged pointlike quantum circulating at an extremely high frequency ( 2.5 × 1020 hz) in a closed, double‐looped hehcal trajectory whose helical pitch is one Compton wavelength h/mc. The quantum has energy and momentum but not rest mass, so its speed is not limited by c. sThe quantum’s speed is superluminal 57% of the time and subluminal 43% of the time, passing through c twice in each trajectory cycle. The quantum’s maximum speed in the electron’s rest frame is 2.515c and its minimum speed is .707c. The electron model’s helical trajectory parameters are selected to produce the electron’s spin ℏ/2 and approximate (without small QED corrections) magnetic moment eℏ/2m (the Bohr magneton μB) as well as its Dirac equation‐related “jittery motion” angular frequency 2mc2/ℏ, amplitude ℏ/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 Compton momentum mc. The internal superluminalily of the photon model, the internal superluminahty/subluminality of the electron model, and the proposed approach to the electron’s inertia as “momentum at rest” within the electron, could be relevant to possible mechanisms of superluminal communication and transportation.