Abstract
There has been a long standing assumption that the electromagnetic mass (self-energy) of a point charge (the electron) is infinite. I am going to challenge that assumption that has been virtually in place since shortly after the electron was discovered over one hundred years ago. I will show that the mass (self-energy) of the electron could be entirely electromagnetic and finite by elucidating what the mass of elementary fermions really is. Connected with that is the origins of Quantum Mechanics.
Fred Diether