Mechanical realization of the medium imitating electromagnetic fields and particles

Abstract

A turbulent fluid exhibits elastic properties. Turbulence may generate in the medium a body force. Small perturbations of averaged ideal turbulence reproduce the electromagnetic field. The averaged fluid velocity corresponds to the magnetic vector-potential, the perturbation of the averaged pressure to the scalar potential, and the body force due to nonuniformity of Reynolds stresses corresponds to the electric field. Discontinuities of the medium model particles and electric charges. A vapor bubble can be taken as a model of the neutron. Under the action of turbulent fluctuations the bubble turns into the inhomogeneity of the elastic medium. The region of rarefaction of the medium thus formed produces in the turbulent fluid the field of positive perturbation of the turbulence energy. This medium defect may serve as a model of the proton. In order to maintain the energy balance the respective field of negative perturbation of the turbulence energy should be formed. This field can be viewed as generated by an isle of quiescent fluid. The latter singularity models the electron. Electromagnetic interactions may be concerned with the entrainment of the pressure center in the turbulent aether. The magnetic force is due to the entrainment by the fluid stream, and the electric force is due to the entrainment by the turbulence.