Polarizable vacuum analysis of electric and magnetic fields

TL;DR

This paper proposes a vacuum-based model for electric and magnetic fields, viewing them as polarization and rearrangement of virtual dipoles in quantum vacuum, offering new insights into electromagnetic energy distribution.

Contribution

It introduces a polarizable vacuum framework to explain electromagnetic fields, linking vacuum polarization to field energy and structure around charges.

Findings

Electric field as polarized vacuum virtual dipoles

Magnetic field as vacuum polarization rearrangement

High energy density of electromagnetic fields

Abstract

The electric and magnetic fields are investigated on the basis of quantum vacuum. The analysis of the electromagnetic energy and force indicates that an electric field is a polarized distribution of the vacuum virtual dipoles, and that a magnetic field in vacuum is a rearrangement of the vacuum polarization. It means that an electromagnetic wave is a successional changing of the vacuum polarization in space. Also, it is found that the average half length of the virtual dipoles around an elementary charge is a=2.8 *10^(-15)m. The result leads to the step distribution of the field energy around an electron, the relation between the fine structure constant and the vacuum polarization distribution, and an extremely high energy density of the electromagnetic field.