Auto-Stabilized Electron

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that including gravitational effects stabilizes the electron, leading to a finite radius close to the Planck length, and unifies electromagnetic and gravitational fields at a fundamental scale.

Contribution

It provides an exact calculation showing gravitational effects are essential for electron stability and derives a specific electron radius based on first principles.

Findings

Electron radius approximately 10^{-36} meters.

Electromagnetic and gravitational fields merge at Planck scale.

Gravitational effects are necessary for electron stabilization.

Abstract

We include effects of self-gravitation in the self-interaction of single electrons with the electromagnetic field. When the effect of gravitation is included there is an inevitable cut-off of the k-vector - the upper limit is finite. The inward pressure of the self-gravitating field balances the outward pressure of self-interaction. Both pressures are generated by self-interactions of the electron with two fields - the vacuum electromagnetic field and the self-induced gravitational field. Specifically we demonstrate that gravitational effects must be included to stabilize the electron. We use the Einstein equation to perform an exact calculation of the bare mass and electron radius. We find a close-form solution. We find the electron radius $r_{e} =9.2\sqrt{\alpha / 4\pi } \sqrt{\hbar G/c^{3}}$ $ =9.2\sqrt{\alpha / 4\pi }l_{P}$ $ \approx 10^{ -36}m$ . $\sqrt{\hbar G/c^{3\text{}}}$ is the Planck length $\ell _{P}$ , which is educed from first principles. We find that the electromagnetic and gravitational fields merge at $\left (8/3\right )\sqrt{\alpha / 4\pi } \sqrt{\hbar c/G}$ $ =\left (8/3\right )\sqrt{\alpha / 4\pi }\ m_{P} =10^{17} G e V$ in terms of the Planck mass $m_{P}$ . Renormalisation is accomplished by requiring continuity of the interior and exterior metrics at $r_{e}$ .