Continuous (non-oscillatory) radiation and vector bosons

An electron radiates electromagnetic radiation transversely as it is accelerated. It is also contracted in the direction of motion, and gains mass.

If the electron's acceleration is centripetal motion, i.e, to orbit of a nucleus, the radiation would be expected to have a frequency equal to the frequency of oscillation of the electron from one side of the atom to the other and back again.

We 'know' that this model of Maxwell's light theory has serious problems. First, Planck's quantum theory contradicted Maxwell's classical theory. Light emerges from electrons in quantum jumps, not all the time, or so people were told a century ago.

Of course quantum field theory, as of 1949 the best, most accurately tested theory in history (mainly because it is easy to measure the magnetic moment of the electron very accurately), says that forces are caused by the exchange of radiation continuously.

So the real picture is that the electron is emitting radiation all the time, and receiving it all the time from other charges in the universe. This exchange is an analogy to - although not to be confused with - Prevost's mechanism whereby a constant temperature is an equilibrium between the emission and the reception of quantum radiation.

(Initially, people clinged on to caloric and phlogiston because they thought it was absurd - and contrary to Ockham's razor - that all bodies are cooling all the time by emitting radiant energy. The explanation that this is not normally noticed because people are - at constant temperature - receiving as much thermal energy from their surroundings as they radiate, was dismissed as an ad hoc fiddle. However, this is the correct explanation: it has enormous empirical support.)

Now we have to ask why the barrier remains between classical and quantum radiation theories. The classical theory of radiation can be interpreted quite naturally as the gauge boson exchange radiation which causes forces (including inertial and gravitational mass), while the quantum theory explains oscillatory radiations which induce electron motions, such as gamma radiation, visible light, and radio waves.

http://electrogravity.blogspot.com/2006/01/solution-to-problem-with-maxwells.html