Abstract

Until now, the masses of elementary particles have been locked in mystery. A new crack in the door has been opened. The masses of charged leptons may now be predicted from first principles. The situation is in many ways analogous to the Bohr Model of energy states in hydrogen. But there are significant differences: the charged leptons are not according to the Quark-Lepton Model. According to a new Electrino Model of Elementary Particles, charged leptons are composed of two half charges called semions orbiting about each other in such deep potential wells that we have no way of blasting them apart. But the force due to their electric charge balances their centrifugal force as in Bohr?s Model. Also the semions go faster than the speed of light, reversing the sense of their electric force and their potential energy. The orbiting semions are in black holes, and are in the event horizons only in the case of electrons. The particles are miniature black holes. They react to the outside world through different powers of the Fine Structure Constant.