V 1.1 03/01/09 On the Electrodynamics of Motionless Events

The problem of electrodynamics among charged particles is analyzed by a physical interpretation of the consequences of the Dirac relativistic equation for the electron. By replacing the mathematical opposites of positive and negative energies with the physical opposites of actual and potential energies and serially coupling them in an oscillation the electron becomes fully discrete in both space and time. When the oscillations of individual charged particles and photons are suitably geometrically related their classical aspects reduce to motionless events whose genesis and interactions form a seamless union of quantum mechanics and special relativity. The model is simply particulate, fields and waves play no role. The logical development of the extension of the model among electrons and protons leads naturally to the electromagnetic interaction of the components of the helium atom. Key words: discrete electrodynamics, physical model, quantum mechanics and special relativity, nonlocality, mass, electron pairing, Pauli exclusion. 1