Transluminal Energy Quantum (TEQ) Model of the Electron

A transluminal energy quantum (TEQ) is proposed that forms an electron by its circulatory motion. The TEQ is particle-like with a helical wave-like motion. It carries electric charge, energy, momentum and angular momentum but no mass, and easily passes through the speed of light $c$. An electron is modeled by a --e charged TEQ circulating at $1.2\times 10^{20}$ hz, the Compton frequency $mc^2/h$, in a closed double-looped helical trajectory whose circular axis' double-looped length is one Compton wavelength $h/mc$. In the electron model the TEQ's speed is superluminal 57{\%} of the time and subluminal 43{\%} of the time, passing through $c$ twice in each trajectory cycle. The TEQ's maximum speed in the electron model's rest frame is 2.515$c$ and its minimum speed is .707$c$ . The TEQ's spatio-temporal helical parameters for the electron model produce the Dirac equation's electron spin $s_z =\hbar /2$ as well as the Dirac equation's magnetic moment $M_z =-e\hbar /2m$, \textit{zitterbewegung} frequency $2mc^2/h$, \textit{zitterbewegung} amplitude $\hbar /2mc$ and internal forward speed $c$, while the TEQ's two helicities correspond to the electron and the positron. In the electron model, the TEQ moves on the mathematical surface of a self-intersecting torus (spindle torus). http://www.superluminalquantum.org