Comment by programmarchy
3 years ago
Right? Intuitively it seems like there's some kind of vortex dynamic happening that would be better represented by something like fluid dynamics or harmonics, but we're trying to classify different kinds of ripples and eddies as "particles".
Hawking predicted low mass objects could form a black hole, and while the proton has less mass than the minimum bounds he calculated, it is extremely dense. Perhaps it's dense enough to where it's close to a micro black hole such that it "sticks together", but information can still be exchanged at its edges? If it's acting as some kind of interface between our spacetime and a gravitationally collapsed state, then this could possibly explain phenomenon like how quantum entanglement is possible, with information being exchanged across spacetime via these quasi black holes. Just my layman speculation!
That reminds me of a throwaway line in a YouTube video with Sir Roger Penrose. He insinuated that Lord Kelvin had been pushing an idea of vortices as an explanation for early evidence of atoms [1]. However, this had suffered a few blows including Rutherford's shell model of the atom alongside the lack of evidence for a suitable fluid-like substance (aether).
Now that we are more-or-less entrenched in the mathematical model of fields, I wonder if anyone is considering vortices within those fields as a possible explanation for observed behavior.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_theory_of_the_atom