In short, screening uses the vacuum to screen the charge. The vacuum is given polarity in the presence of charge. In this way, the electron uses up some of its charge interacting with the vacuum. More distance, more vacuum, less charge.

In my theory, all this is thrown out, since we don’t need it. We don’t need an esoteric explanation of diminishment of charge, since we have a simple mechanical explanation of it. In my theory, charge is caused by an emitted field of B-photons, which cause forces by direct contact or bombardment. If we treat the electron as a simple sphere with a real surface area, the drop off of the charge field is immediately explained as the dispersion of a finite field into an infinite volume. The surface area of the electron is so small that this drop-off must be very fast.

This does away with the infinity involved in the bare charge (using Maxwell’s equations), since the electron is not a point particle. There are no points in my math or my theory, so we do not have to renormalize our way out of infinities or singularities. The bare charge is then defined as the density of the B-photon field at the surface of the electron, or at the boundary of the electron’s z-spin. In my theory, there are quite simple ways to calculate this density. Calculating the effective charge is also simple, since we simply calculate the fall off in field density due to the spherical field. These calculations are calculations of surface areas and nothing more.