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Hydrodynamics of the Physical Vacuum: II. Vorticity Dynamics

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Physical vacuum is a special superfluid medium populated by enormous amount of virtual particle-antiparticle pairs. Its motion is described by the modified Navier–Stokes equation: (a) the pressure gradient divided by the mass density is replaced by the gradient from the quantum potential; (b) time-averaged the viscosity vanishes, but its variance is not zero. Vortex structures arising in this medium show infinitely long lifetime owing to zero average viscosity. The nonzero variance is conditioned by exchanging the vortex energy with zero-point vacuum fluctuations. The vortex has a non-zero core where the orbital speed vanishes. The speed reaches a maximal value on the core wall and further it decreases monotonically. The vortex trembles around some average value and possesses by infinite life time. The vortex ball resulting from topological transformation of the vortex ring is considered as a model of a particle with spin. Anomalous magnetic moment of electron is computed.

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  1. see in Wikipedia: ‘Tropical cyclone’.

  2. The name “vortex ball” originates from the ball lighting—an astonishing electromagnetic bundle of energy emerging often during thunderstorms.

  3. Wikipedia: ’color wheel’.

  4. This is the most accurate value given in Wikipedia: ‘Electron magnetic moment’.

  5. One can guess that the helicoidal vortex rings are similar to strings [20] after reducing them onto the 3D-brane, to our three-dimensional space.

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The author thanks Denise Puglia, Mike Cavedon, and Pat Noland for useful and valuable remarks and offers. The author thanks also the reviewers for the constructive critique and proposals.

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  2. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA

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Sbitnev, V.I. Hydrodynamics of the Physical Vacuum: II. Vorticity Dynamics. Found Phys 46, 1238–1252 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-015-9985-3

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