Self-Field Theory is a new description of electromagnetic interactions. At its heart are bispinorial motions for both the electromagnetic fields and the interacting particles. Among its recent successes it has solved a simple model of the hydrogen atom, obtained an analytic estimate for the mass of the photon, and provided the first glimpses of structure within the photon. This may yield an organizational structure for bosons reminiscent in some ways to the chemical table that was glimpsed by Mendeleev in 1860 via a two-dimensional array of elemental properties. The self-field formulation obtains an analytic expression for Planck's number providing a basis for its understanding as a variable of motion applying equally to the electron, the proton and the photon. While there are many differences, this report shows how the fields of Self-Field Theory vary from classical electromagnetics and quantum field theory. In classical electromagnetics the field covers all solid angles around a charge and is defined as a vector. Quantum Field Theory models the field as quanta shown as small wavy lines within Feynman diagrams; the mathematics does not specify an actual path, only the start and the finish points where a Dirac-delta function is used to insert a propagator kernel or Greens function. Basically Quantum Field Theory models the field as an impulse specified at space points. The uncertainty within Quantum Field Theory is related to the lack of a complete electromagnetic bispinorial field form. The fields in Self-Field Theory are discrete streams of photons, rather than the continuous fields of Maxwell's classical electromagnetics. The photons are specified via a bispinorial function as spatially and time-varying motions including spiral-helices between the electron and proton of the hydrogen atom. Thus two distances are involved in the bispinorial motions not one, fundamentally different to CEM and QFT.
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