  We show a strong parallel between the Hawking, Beckenstein black hole
Thermodynamics and electromagnetism: When the gravitational coupling constant
transform into the electromagnetic coupling constant, the Schwarzchild radius,
the Beckenstein temperature, the Beckenstein decay time and the Planck mass
transform to respectively the Compton wavelength, the Hagedorn temperature, the
Compton time and a typical elementary particle mass. The reasons underlying
this parallalism are then discussed in detail.
