Category:
Research Papers
Sub-Category:
Mechanics / Electrodynamics
Date Published:
July 22, 2025
Abstract:
Wilhelm Weber showed in his Sixth Memoir (1871) that a pair of dissimilar electrical particles can maintain a stable orbital rotation at a critical distance (ρ), defined as ρ = 2 (1/ ε + 1/εʹ ) eeʹ/cc where ε and εʹ are the masses of the two particles, e and eʹ are their charges, and c is the Weber constant (= √2c x light velocity). At the time Weber wrote this extraordinary work, the values for charge and mass of the electrical particles were not known. In my recent examination of the Weber dissimilar particle pair using the modern available values, I saw that this object produces a spin angular momentum equal to 1/137 the value of the reduced Planck constant ħ (=h/2π) and a magnetic moment equal to 1/137 the Bohr magneton, considered the basis of so many atomic phenomena. Owing to these very small values, I am calling the Weber rotator a sub-quantum particle. I believe mine is the first calculation of these values.
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