A New Interpretation of Charge Based on Spinning Sphere Model of Electron

TL;DR

This paper proposes a novel interpretation of electron charge as electromagnetic self-energy within a spinning sphere model, linking charge to self-energy mass and predicting zero-charge for massless particles.

Contribution

It introduces a new interpretation of electron charge based on a spinning sphere model incorporating recent experimental charge distribution data.

Findings

Charge interpreted as electromagnetic self-energy mass.

Charge-energy equivalence established.

Massless particles predicted to have zero charge.

Abstract

LEP experiments indicate that the charge of the electron is distributed over a small radius $\sim10^{-20} $m. By incorporating this information in spinning sphere model of electron we arrive at a new interpretation of charge as the Schwinger corrected or electromagnetic or magnetic self-energy mass. The charge-energy equivalence is also arrived at in this paper. Further it is predicted that particles with zero mass will not contain any charge.