Hydrodynamics of the physical vacuum: dark matter is an illusion

TL;DR

This paper explores how a superfluid vacuum medium with fluctuating viscosity can explain quantum mechanics and the flat rotation curves of galaxies, suggesting dark matter is an illusion.

Contribution

It derives quantum equations from hydrodynamics of a superfluid vacuum and links vacuum fluctuations to galactic rotation phenomena.

Findings

Quantum equations emerge from pressure gradients in the superfluid vacuum.

Vacuum viscosity fluctuations can account for flat galaxy rotation curves.

Dark matter effects may be explained by vacuum energy exchange, not unseen matter.

Abstract

The relativistic hydrodynamical equations are being examined with the aim of extracting the quantum-mechanical equations (the relativistic Klein-Gordon equation and the Schr\"odinger equation in the non-relativistic limit). In both cases it is required to get the quantum potential, which follows from pressure gradients within a superfluid vacuum medium. This special fluid, endowed with viscosity allows to describe emergence of the flat orbital speeds of spiral galaxies. The viscosity averaged on time vanishes, but its variance is different from zero. It is a function fluctuating about zero. Therefore the flattening is the result of the energy exchange of the torque with zero-point fluctuations of the physical vacuum on the ultra-low frequencies.