# What happens if we consider at the level of calculation-definition (not physically) the photon have charge $\pm$ $1$ and the electron charge = $0$? [closed]

Warning: physically you do not have to change anything, photon still remain 'photon' and electron still remain 'electron'. I'm interested configuring an behavior in particle function exchange, not obtain a new interaction or a new particle.

I want to see what mathematically can come out of it, so physically speaking, more about a way to configure a new possibility to use the same particles, not to generate different information, but activate a way to use that information (particle, charge, interaction..)

So also consider the positron to have charge = $$0$$

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• So if you don't want to physically give the photon charge, don't want any new interactions, and don't what any particles, what do you actually want to do? – knzhou Nov 17 '18 at 23:14
• Aside from any other inconsistencies, the electron would have to emit photons in pairs and would not be able to absorb a photon (assuming charge conservation still holds). So the interaction would be very different, if not impossible, thus making your question not well defined. – safesphere Nov 18 '18 at 0:12
• Considering that the electron wouldn't have charge, the positron wouldn't exist as the electron would be it's own anti-particle under charge conjugation, meanwhile as noted above there will exist two photons, one for each charge. – Triatticus Nov 18 '18 at 0:40
• @safesphere I try to configure a way to obtain an "electron" or a "photon" from a functional point of view extracted from a context where a homotopy theory has been made and not for doing! (ncatlab.org/nlab/show/model+category). This why I want to freeing the need to have or not have a real or theorically real particle and therefore the dependence on having or not having to use a physical or theoretically physical instrument. In other terms my model can't generating and we don't read and we can not introduce any kind of information, if a new information exist my system fails – user332153 Nov 18 '18 at 9:07
• The only thing we can do is to be able to use the same information in a different way but without needing to have it or not to have a information` or not a information ! – user332153 Nov 18 '18 at 9:13