Think about it for 2 seconds. The electron is not a little ball with an electric charge stuck to it.

It is the unit electrical lines charge connected to the structure that generates it by induction, the corresponding unit magnetic charge, the magnetic monopole. The electron is the smallest "particle" and it is just that, a single monopole. IMHO

    I understand what you tell, but the nobel prizes or field medal or others are always given after a proved work mathematically or by experiments. Einstein has had his nobel for a work about the photoelectric effects and not for the GR and SR, the same for Wittem he has had the field medal for a works concrete in maths about the fields, but after the people confound their prizes witht heir models , that is why all are focused on this GR and photons only and the strings, but they are theories not proved , even if there are several relevances. A lot of money indeed is spent for these researchs because we try to find and explain our main unknowns and when they are found, it permits the investments in new technologies, it is the main aim of lobbies and investors in fact. I beleive that there are a lot of confusions at this moment inside the theoretical sciences community, we have an ocean of models and it is important also to tell that it is more difficult now to explain these deepe unknowns than 100 years ago when Borh, einstein, planck and the others were together searching to complete this standard model. Your ideas and model is very interesting and general , and like all you must prove whjat you tell. I see that you are general even if I see differently I respect your ideas, I beleive strongly that the particles like main origin is foundamental ,but it is an assumption also like yours.I see that you consider mainly this time like the main peice of puzzle, probably due to an interpretation of this spacetime luminiferous of Einsteain and its GR and SR , but like I said, I see this time correlated with the rotating 3D spehres and the velocities and irreversible also , we must differenciate at my opinion the observations relativistic with the real time in the pure mechanics. The time seems a parameter emergent due to these motions and objects , the quaternions can be interesting in considering a pure 3D and this time for the rotations , but it does not seem to be a real dimension, it is an emergent porperty of duration correlated probably with the evolution, because without time we have no evolution and no matters , so the motions become the key. Your coupling ring idea is interesting and could converge with the motions of these finite series of 3D spheres , even the exchanges can be inserted and the quasiparticles , imagine a hopf fibration on surfaces of these 3D spheres for the quasiparticles and the virtual particles....

    Like dirac said , we don t know what is really an electron, we cannot still affirm what they are and why they have their properties, Dirac and Feynman have worked about this, and even they have considered antiparticles differently, one consider a kind of negative energy , the other considered a backward time

    for me it is a serie of 3D pshres having merged due to a serie for the space the main codes and two fuels, the cold DM andf the photons, that permits to create their properties because they become simply what they must become, they are not a single sphere but a serie, and their properties appear due to this fusion of 3 main series, I don t consider these fields and waves like primoridal origin, I consider the particles giving the properties, they distribute their fields and energies in function of their intrinsic codes simply in this space and due to these two fuels, these fuels permit to balance the cahrges but explain also the negentropy entropy, the +, the heat cold, the gravitation electeromagnetism, this and that, we need a balance at all scales .....

    See that we need an universal balance, see now the relevance if the 3D spheres are a reality at all scales with the senses of rotations....

    see also that these magnetic monopoles are hypothetical particles and correlated with the superstrings still and the branes, for me even If I respect these theories, they are not foundamental and we have no extradimensions of 1D to 11D and no monopole, it comes from these 1D strings still and the photons like main essence and origin, you know , it seems odd to consider the waves, fields like main origin instead of particles coded, like I explained these strings have a big philosophical problems, we can make all the maths that we want that will not change that these strings, branes have many problems, maybe the thinkers must forget this prison of strings and GR and go deeper in considering particles coded simply

      Marcel,

      I get what you are saying, and again the difficulty lies in the limitations on what we can make observable. Steve is also correct to a degree and his fascination with (idealized, original spatial configuration) spherical representation of reality is not inconsistent with your paradigm.

      Where I think it can come together is where we imagine energy condensing to a matter state which exhibits physical properties such that the task is to reach consensus on definition of qualitative, ontological terms that might provide a quantitative model for "why" induction of the magnetic moment occurs. And thus arive at a general definition rather than an experimental definition of electric charge. What IS it? ... energy of course, and at greater density than the same continuously connected energy that exhibits the characteristics primarily of magnetism.

      How might we imagine the behavior of energy gravitationally bound (hypothetical for sake of ideal modeling) in a self-limiting free rest mass? Given the paradigm of an isolate quantity forming a FRM condensate, let's propose that the primary force effects are manifest as the conjugates of the tendency of energy to decelerate inwardly to concentrate energy quantity and conserve space in an energy super-saturate universe --- and the tendency of energy to accelerate towards light velocity outwardly to fill space.

      We now com to the expediency provisional by both SR and GR; that if energy accelerates outwardly to the relativistic limit, then it is the rate of time that is existant at light velocity and the simply connected energy across a range of density variation in the FRM need not, nor cannot, be in any state of motion itself at the gravitational limit boundary of some empirically derived universal minimum density.

      So what's Time got to do with it at the other end of density variation in the condensate FRM? Would not the inverse be true? ... that the rate of time slows towards nil at some empirical upper density limit as energy "stacks up on itself" exponentially under the ontology of gravitational deceleration. (i.e.) Time doesn't 'stop' at light velocity, only the observation of it because light velocity is the limit to which time can go.

      So at the electron's center there might be an inelastic density core outward of which is a lower density spherical measurement boundary we associate with electrical characteristics. BUT that doesn't mean that the condensate doesn't continue to use up a tiny bit of the total mass quantity of energy interior to the measurement boundary of inelastic density and the upper density limit might approach a density where Time physically stops. Hence: not even physical rotation (motion) is necessary for there be a difference in state of motion to produce induction!

      Best Wishes, jrc

      Hi John, all this is interesting, about the energy, all is there, how is transformed this E and what is the main source creating these topologies, geometries and properties, , the problem seems philosophical, if the thinkers think that we are inside an infinite energy of heat and that this thing so oscillate, so we understand its distributions, but this energy can be also inside particles and distributed .... all is there, how is the matter energy transformations and thr main codes , is it fields, waves or particles , is it an energy creating the matters of a matter liberating this energy, you can so understand why I consider a central cosmological sphere where this Eis coded and transformed in matter and after distributed but we cannot affirm like I said but all seem there between these two main primoridal origin. I am fascinated by these spheres indeed philosophically , I have found this theory in ranking a little bit of all, chmistry, biology, animals, vegetals, minerals, maths, physics and in a page of biology I have seen the evolution of brains since the lemurians and we see also a spherisation relative of these brains, I told me wowww the universe and particles also are spheres probably, why this chpoice, why this sphape, I don t know, maybe simply it is like that , they are the perfect equilibrium of forces, they permit the optimised motions, they have no angle and permit to create with deformations all geometries, this shapes seem the choice of this universe and even the gravitation is correlated, why our eyes, are spherical, why the planets, stars, moons, BHs, waves, a water drop, the glands, the virus, why the favorite sports of humans also, because it is like this simply , if the thinkers think in a god of Spinoza like Einstein, why this thing that we cannot define has created this shpae, maybe in concentrating during an eternity this energy in a sphere and after in creating this physicality simply, why ? I don t know, maybe it is like this, God was alone lol maybe and so we create a physicality , for me this central cosmological sphere is fascinating and is the begining of all and it is there that all informations and codes are sent and continue to send furthermore due to evolution, it is the meaning of my theory of spherisation, an optimisation evolution of the universal sphere or future sphere, why we evolve, because it is like this, it is a kind of project of optimisation probably. The universe is very simple generally. The Energy is distributed and coded in the matter for me and with codes , that implies a supermatter in this central cosmological sphere, this thing intrigues me in fact a lot.

      Dear John, could tellme more about your general philosophy, and what do you consider like foundamental objects and why they are what they are, it seems essential to go deeper. Regards

      Hello again, Steve,

      Yes I can understand your fascination with a centralized cosmological sphere as the idealized paradigm model. My own image is that while that is consistent with the notion of there being a relative simultaneous moment at any given moment chosen by an observer, Neutral Centrality points to many observers choosing moments where the relative simultaneous moments of each do not necessarily agree with others across the board. So while we might imagine a cosmological sphere, it is only from our position of observation and, much like Sabine Hosenfelder's musings on 'discrete spacetime', is observable by us as an amalgam of a manifold of both virtual and metastable particles ejecting and absorbing energy quantities in linear projections of solitonic 'wavetrains', or partial exchanges of energy by those solitons 'grazing' the field volumes of discrete 'quantum gravitational' particles of spacetime energy.

      An ideal spherical FRM is easy enough (as it turned out) and generating Specific Densities from a naive algebraic model of EMR was sufficient for the task. Then, ontologically it gets dicey. Electric charge can be heuristically qualified as simply the behavior of an energy density less than inelastic but greater than fluid. Then comes to tricky part; what and by how much, differentiates what we designate a 'positive' charge from a 'negative' charge. My image is one in which the the actual measurable quantity of energy displaying an outward acceleration tendency is equal to the corresponding quantity constituting increasing density displaying the inward deceleration tendency. This gives a rationale for the uni-polar charge of both the electron and proton as non-rotating masses with time going in all directions on the hypersphere of density distribution, and is but one of several determinants. Another is that, given the premise that energy would exist motionless at light velocity universally if there were enough space to allow, quantum gravitational concentration would require that higher density would timewise have to force out laterally to the direction of gravitational 'fall'. Perhaps like E8, a disc perpendicular to a single pole passing through its center, that wraps onto a sphere. This gives a rationale for the orthogonal relationship observed in electromagnetism. The third is physical rotation of a particle generating greater induction and differentiation of polarity.

      I've been toying with the idea recently that it might be easier just to invent a new math, maybe like tensors of the fourth rank. By for now, I've been sinfully neglecting my garden once it got too hot for leaf lettuce, and I have to get my bumper back into alignment after getting rear ended at slow speed. Drat I wish I didn't have to crawl back under the ol' POS again. I'm 70 years Old! gimme the wrench Best jrc

      Hi John, you know I beleive that the universe is simple generally, we see mainly spheres inside our universe and they are real, sabine is good but we are not obliged to agree with all her ideas fortunally, see well the nature, all seems to possess a center and the spheroids, ellipsoids, spheres seem foundamental, the observations are not the problem, the spheres cosmological are not an illusion but are reals, and we have big probabilities to have quantum 3D spheres , why ? I don t know, it is maybe simply like this, the quantum spheres give the general cosmological spheres, why ? because simply it is the choice of this universe this shape and they can create all shapes with the good mathematical tools, sometimes you know the simplicity is important in the generality. Why to search complex things for a real truth ? they are that said very complex in details thease 3D coded quantum spheres when we consioder a finite primoridal serie the same than our cosmological finite serie, there is something about this finite number and the morions rotations oscillations in a kind of aether, that is why I consider 3 main finite series, one space and two fuels, the photons and the cold dark matter, and when they merge they create our reality, the photonic space time is just a part of puzzle, we have other aethers to superimpose, the photons are just for me a fule permiotting this electromagntism and heat and the fact to observe but they are not the main primordial essence, so I don t consider these strings inside these photons to explain this physicality and its geometries, topologies, matters and fields, we have a deeper logic, but the thinkers have difficulties to think beyond the box now and consider deeper paramters superimposed. About this E8 I beleive it is a fashion also due to the geonetrical beauty of these geometrical alebras of this exceptional group, so they consider this geometry to fractalise the fields and explain our reality with fields but if the fields are not the primordial essence, so all is false like these strings, they are just an assumption- About the gardening I love , I produce many plants here with Ulla Mattfolk, we are going to open a nursery, it is my passion with the piano and guitar , and all is cultivated in an organic argilo humic complex with our own compost, I loke to multiplicate the plants, mainly the fuchsias , I like a lot this flower. Take care John, friendly

      Hi Steve,

      We are inclined to assume that time exists, as the result of being in the Earth`s rotational motion.

      We would be inclined to assume that time did not exist, as some kind of force or thing, if the Earth did not have it`s rotational motion.

      I posted on this topic, `The Nature of Time`, on February 15th, 2019. It`s the second entry at the top of this column.

      Hi Mr Snowdon, I beleive indeed that there is a link with the rotations of these quantum and cosmological spheres, the motions rotations seem linked with this duration evolution abd time, the quaternions become relevant considering these rotations, the nature of this time is a big puzzle , thanks for sharing , we need to analyse this time in deeper analysis probably to better encircle it ,best regards

      Hi Steve,

      The Earth`s rotational motion is the physical mechanism that provides the basis of our time measurement system. Our time measurement system is based on the periods of durations of Earth`s rotations.

      Our clocks do not actually measure the passing of some kind of real thing or force, our clocks simply measure periods of durations elapsing.

      What we consciously experience is duration elapsing.

      Our reality is to be travelling at a surface speed of 1,000 miles per hour at the equator.

      As the Earth rotates we see the constant effects of the rotational motion in seamless concert with our clocks. This constant evidence of change validates our clocks and our sense of time passing.

      As a result, we are in error, in assuming that time exists as some kind of force or thing. It is only motion that exists, not time.

      Hello Mr Snowdon, I like these ideas , have you already thought about the velocities of rotations of volumes, spherical if the particles are 3D spheres and if we consider the universal sphere wich does not turn, so there is like a kind of link between the volumes, mass, densities,....and the rotations and the time, it is intriguing if the 3D spheres are foundamental and the rotations also at all scales ,

      so the motions rotations create the time and it seems logic indeed

      It feels to me like the physics community is suffering it's own version of "creative heat death". They seem to dwell on how the universe will die in 100 billion years or a trillion years. I personally think that physicists should go outside and either scream at God and ask for intervention, or alternatively, go outside at night and beg the ALIENS to abduct them and show them how physics really works. Anything short of that is just a waste of time.

      Hi Jason, there is a problem indeed , it is probably due to fact that we have more difficulties now to complete the discoveries, it is more difficult than 100 years ago , we are all persuaded also and our vanity does not arrange the problem, and more also bad habits like the strings even if I respect these works and find several mathematical relevances, maybe we must be simply less focus on our own works and work in team focus on the pure determinism and seraching concrete proofs, we need to know more and be humble also , we know also that the sciences community is divided about God, for me it is essential to consider a kind of god of spinoza, a kind of infinite eternal consciousness creating this physicality and its codes and informations. It seems foundamental to really encircle the global system.

      Hi Steve,

      If the Earth`s rotational period was one year rather than one day, the Sun`s position in the Earth`s sky would remain the same for any particular place on the sunny side of the Earth.

      If you were on the permanently sunny side of the Earth, the Sun would gradually migrate up and down in the sky, as the Earth revolved around the Sun, as the result of the Earth`s tilted axis.

      If you were on the permanently dark side of the Earth, the stars would appear to remain in the same position in the sky, although they would gradually migrate across the sky as a result of the Earth revolving around the Sun.

      If the sun was at the 2 pm. position in your garden Steve, it would always be at the 2 pm. position.

      Under these conditions, we would be inclined to assume that time did not exist as some kind of force or thing.

      It is our reality to be travelling at the surface speed of 1,000 miles per hour at the equator, and to be seeing the all encompassing changes that the Earth`s rotational motion causes, repeating every 24 hours, perfectly matched to our clocks.

      As a result, we are in error, in assuming that time exists as some kind of force or thing. It is only motion that exists, not time.