By Giorgio Vassallo
There is an hidden assumption in modern mainstream physics, that has never clearly stated, concerning the deep questions related to the very origin of only apparently well known and familiar physical concepts as inertial mass, charge, spin, magnetic moment: These are old-fashion questions, more than 100 years old, that do not deserve attention after decades of research and technological innovations, now the new frontier of physics are related to other "modern" subjects as "quark confinement", "sterile neutrinos" or "Supersymmetry".
This paper, going in the opposite direction and in agreement with the theoretical framework proposed in the book "Unified Field Theory and Occam's Razor: Simple answers to deep questions", proposes a new intuitive electron model, highlighting the fundamental role of the electromagnetic potentials. As an example the electron mass/charge ratio, a measurable value, is exactly equal (in natural units) to the value of the vector potential module associated to the fast motion (Zitterbewegung) of a charge the moves always at speed of light. This model implies a purely geometric/electromagnetic interpretation of Maxwell-Proca, Planck, De Broglie, Schrödinger, relativistic energy momentum relation and Aharonov-Bohm equations.
This approach, allowing the formulation of a realistic hypothesis on the formation of dense charge clusters seen by Shoulders and other researchers in their experiments, suggests that these charge clusters in nanometric gaps may have a role in the generation of Ultra Dense Hydrogen and in the catalysis of Low Energy Nuclear Reactions.