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Gravity as a uid dynamic phenomenon
in a superuid quantum space.
Superuid quantum gravity and relativity.
revised May 05, 2017 (v6)

Marco Fedi1
Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca (MIUR), Italy

Abstract
This hypothesis starts from considering the physical vacuum as a su-
peruid quantum medium, that we call superuid quantum space (SQS),
close to the previous concepts of quantum vacuum, quantum foam, su-
peruid vacuum etc. We usually believe that quantum vacuum is popu-
lated by an enormous amount of particle-antiparticle pairs whose life is
extremely short, in a continuous foaming of formation and annihilation.
Here we move further and we hypothesize that these particles are super-
uid symmetric vortices of those quanta constituting the cosmic superuid
(probably dark energy). Because of superuidity, these vortices can have
an indeterminately long life. Vorticity is interpreted as spin (a particle's
internal motion). Due to non-zero, positive viscosity of the SQS, and to
Bernoulli pressure, these vortices attract the surrounding quanta, pressure
decreases and the consequent incoming ow of quanta lets arise a gravita-
tional potential. This is called superuid quantum gravity. In this model
we don't resort to gravitons. Once comparing superuid quantum gravity
with general relativity, it is evident how a hydrodynamic gravity could
fully account for the relativistic eects attributed to spacetime distortion,
where the space curvature is substituted by ows of quanta. Also special
relativity can be merged in the hydrodynamics of a SQS and we obtain
a general simplication of Einstein's relativity under the single eect of
superuid quantum gravity.
1 [email protected]; [email protected]

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1 Massive particles as vortices in a superuid
quantum space (SQS)
The particles of the Standard Model could form as dynamic topological defects
(superuid vortices) or pulses in a SQS [4]. In this view, the superuid vacuum
[1, 2, 3, 21] is a fundamental scalar eld with quasi-zero, positive viscosity
which gives mass to particles through the kinetic energy of its quanta, once
perturbations occur. There are therefore several analogies with the Higgs eld,
while Higgs boson would be a spin-0 vortex of space's quanta (SQ), i.e. a
single vortex, then an elementary particle, whose remarkable mass, given the
low density and viscosity of SQS, would make it unstable and would compel it to
a quick decay into smaller vortices (lighter particles) and pulses. Sbitnev [5, 6]
considers quantum vacuum as a superuid and applies quantum considerations
to Navier Stokes equations to describe vortex objects (vortex balls) which, unlike
Hill's spherical vortices, show intersected streamlines and seem to satisfactorily
reproduce fermions' spin by varying their orientation at each revolution. Also
Volovik [7] accurately discusses the possible topology of quantum vacuum and
the appearence of vortices. Huang [19] arms that quantum turbulence (chaotic
vorticity) in the early universe was able to create all the matter in the universe.
We know that quantum vortices occur in other superuids such as those
observed in helium nanodroplets [8, 9]. It may be interesting to start from
the analysis of vortices in a Bose-Einstein condensate (ψ(r, t)), for whose time-
depending evolution the most simple model is the Gross-Pitaevskii equation
[10]:

~2 ~ 2
 
∂ψ(r, t) 2
i~ = − ∇ + Vext (r, t) + g |ψ(r, t)| ψ(r, t) (1)
∂t 2m
Where Vext (r, t) is an external potential and g = 4π~2 as /m (with as scatter-
ing length) is the coupling constant. From (1), Proment, Onorato and Barenghi
[11] elaborate the continuity and linear momentum conservation equations for
an inviscid, barotropic, compressible and irrotational uid:

∂ρ
+ ∇ · (ρv) = 0, (2)
∂t
 2√ 
∂v ∇ρ ∇ ρ
+ (v · ∇)v = − +∇ √ (3)
∂t 2 2 ρ
where the last term in (3) is the quantum stress tensor, which represents an
important dierence from the classical Euler equation. Albeit the superuid is
irrotational, quantized vortices can appear, with a quantized circulation which
is analogous to that described in the Bohr model, as the wavefunction must
return to its same value after an integral number of turns
˛
2π~
v · dl ≡ n. (4)
C(t) m

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where m is the mass of the superuid particle and 2πn the phase dierence
around the vortex. Eq. (4) is also the additional condition to impose to the
Madelung equations

∂t ρ + ∇ · (ρv) = 0, (5)
 
1 1 √
∂t v + v · ∇v= − ∇ √ Ĥ ρm (6)
m ρm

where ρm = mρ is mass density, to describe a fundamental particle as a super-

uid vortex. These vortices behave as gaps in the medium where superuidity
breaks down and the presence of a topological structure where pressure and
density go to zero, would suggest the non-necessity of renormalization, since
no ultraviolet divergence would occur. The use of hydrodynamic equations of
vortices applied to SQS to describe the fundamental particles and their force
elds would be advantageous under dierent aspects. We could for instance
explain the appearance of particle-antiparticle pairs from quantum vacuum as
a perturbative phenomenon similar to that described in a Kármán vortex street
(Fig. 1)

Figure 1: a computer simulation of a Kármán vortex street. Clumps of space's quanta (dark
matter?) in a SQS might be responsible for the appearance of particle-antiparticle pairs as

superuid vortices of space's quanta.

where pairs formed by a right- and a left-handed vortex occur due to a per-
turbation of the ow. In our case the ow may be represented by hydrodynamic
gravitational elds in the SQS produced by other bodies and the perturbation el-
ements by other particles [12] or clumps of space's quanta (a possible explanation
for dark matter and its role in creating/aggregating ordinary matter?) or any
stochastic perturbation of the SQS (do we interpret this originary disturbance
as the Big Bang? Has it been a cascading perturbation of a pre-existing SQS?).
The self-sustainability of the vortices would be possibile thanks to superuidity.
The wave functions of particle-antiparticle pairs might then emerge from the
perturbation of SQS. Avdeenkov and Zloshchastiev discuss self-sustainability
and emergence of spatial extenta in quantum Bose liquids [13].
The trigger to the formation of vortex-antivortex pairs in uid quantum
space, corresponding to matter-antimatter within our analogy, might besides be
a phase transition similar to the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition, where bound

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vortex-antivortex pairs get unpaired at some critical temperature, what could
have occurred at a certain point in the history of the universe. Also the math-
ematics of Lamb-Chaplygin dipoles is interesting for describing the dynamics
of symmetric vortices. We suggest however a dierent geometry for a vortex-
1
particle in SQS, compatible with the fermionic spin , and described in Ÿ3.
2

Figure 2: a possible analogy between Kármán vortex street phenomena [14] and perturba-
tions in SQS might help us to understand how particles and interactions arise from a superuid

quantum vacuum.

If fundamental particles are vortices of the quanta which form the SQS, then
also vacuum uctuations should arise from their circulation. The uctuations
of the zero-point eld are expressed as

h
4E4t ≥ = ~. (7)
2π
In our case it refers to the energy uctuations in time of the SQS. By con-
sidering the Bohm-Sommerfeld relation
˛
p · dx = nh (8)
C
for n=1 we see that the Planck constant refers to mass circulating along
a closed loop in a given time, i.e. to kinetic energy conned in time (that
necessary to complete one turn), having h unit of [J · s]. With respect with the
mass-energy of stationary SQ, this kinetic energy adds energy to the system
while the turn is performed, so we understand the meaning of 4E4t. Thus, in
(7) we ascertain that the variation of energy 4E which occurs in the time 4t
is of kinetic nature and corresponds to a mass circulation in a quantum vortex.
Vacuum uctuations may therefore be vortices which manifest in the SQS.
The so-called quantum foam of virtual particle-antiparticle pairs does not cor-
respond to the scalar eld itself but to a manifestation of the underlying fun-
damental scalar eld (dark energy), that is to its continuous hydrodynamic
uctuation. Since vacuum uctuations consist in particle-antiparticle pairs, we
have to consider two symmetrical vortices which destroy each other when they

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come in contact in the way their circulations are not mechanically mutual (circu-
lation of opposite sense). Also the phenomenon of annihilation would therefore
occur on the basis of quantum hydrodynamics.

2 The engine of quantum gravity: spin, pressure

and non-zero viscosity of SQS.
No superuid has a real zero viscosity. Non-zero viscosity of SQS, along with
Bernoulli pressure, would cause the attraction of the space's quanta surrounding
the vortices into the vortices themselves and this would reect onto macroscopic
bodies (Fig. 3) which are constituted of vortex-particles. The result is a force
gradient around the vortex which obeys the inverse-square law. Thus, we pro-
claim that quantum gravity can be described without resorting to gravitons,
where space's quanta (dark energy quanta?) are the passive carriers of grav-
ity, which occurs around massive particles as an apparent force mediated by a
negative pressure gradient, due to quanta absorption. CFD simulations using
Navier-Stokes equations have been performed (considering for simplication a
newtonian uid like water), with a positive result, and details are collected in
the annex. We see in the simulation that a spherical geometry of the attracting
object would exactly correspond to Gauss's law for gravity, which is directly
connected with Newton's law of universal gravitation. Below (Ÿ3) we suggest
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a horn-torus-vortex geometry, which seems able to justify fermions' spin-
2 and
the link gravity-electromagnetism. Also Consoli and Pappalardo investigated
the possibility that gravity can emerge from a superuid vacuum [15].

Figure 3: Two spherical macroscopic bodies move the one toward the other since they're

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absorbing the uid (SQS) which they're immersed in. This phenomenon is in direct agreement

with Gauss's law for gravity:

∂V
g · dA = −4πGM and has been proven through CFD

simulations. The result is an apparent attractive force due a pressure gradient (Fig. 6) that

we interprete as gravity.

Navier-Stokes equations representing mass, momentum and energy have

been used:

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 ∂(uj )
=0 (9)
∂xj
 
∂(ui uj ) 1 ∂p µ ∂ ∂ui ∂uj
=− + + (10)
∂xj ρ ∂xi ρ ∂xj ∂xj ∂xi
 
∂((ρE + p)uj ) ∂ ∂T
= −k (11)
∂xj ∂xj ∂xj
The condition of two stationary spheres immersed in an incompressible uid
was set and the pressure integral of the forces acting on them was calculated.
The analysis took into account the response to absorption velocity and to dis-
tance between the spheres. To simplify the simulations, the system was reduced
as showed in Fig. 12 (annex).
The attractive force produced by pressure forces and momentum is repre-
sented by:
ˆ
Fa = ~ A
(p + ρ(~u · ~n)(~u · d))d ~ · d~ (12)
A
where A corresponds to the surface of the inner sphere, ~n is the normal unit
vector to the sphere's surface (if the absorption velocity is perfectly radially
aligned we have ~u · ~n = |~u|), and d~ is the unit vector for the distance between
the spheres. The analysis of velocity and pressure, with respect to the distance
(radius) from the absorbing sphere is illustrated in Fig. 6 and the diagrams
in Fig. 18, 19, 20 and 21 (annex) show an inverse quadratic dependence on
distance and a quadratic dependence on the ow velocity.
Renement of computational grid and domain enlargement helped to reduce
the curvature of the ow lines, up to a virtually radial ow (Fig. 17).
The behavior of the attractive force shown by this analysis is concordant with
Newton's law of universal gravitation, since the attractive force decreases with
distance (radius) according to an inverse square law and quadratically grows
according to the velocity of the ux. Two equal absorbing spheres have been
considered, corresponding to equal masses in Newton's law.

3 Vortex geometry and emergence of spin and

quantum potential.
As far as the most appropriate vortex geometry to hydrodynamically explain the
spin is concerned, it is interesting to consider the simple evolution: vortex tube
→ vortex ring → horn-torus-shaped vortex (Fig. 4). Also Villois, Krstulovic
et al. analyze vortex tubes evolving into vortex tori in superuids [16] and
demonstrate the emergence of non-trivial topology. This geometry seems to
well account for the spin of fundamental particles. In the case a quantum of su-
peruid space owing in the torus vortex needed the same time the vortex needs
to complete two turns in the toroidal direction to return in the same position

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after having completed one turn in the poloidal direction, then the vortex would
have spin-½ (fermion), i.e. the system returns in the same state after a toroidal
rotation of 720°, after each quantum forming the vortex has moved along a
Möbius-strip path. It is interesting to notice that a two-components spin can
explain in mechanical terms any other type of spin as the ratio of the number of
toroidal rotations to poloidal rotations. Putting ω1 , ω 2 as the angular velocities
for the respectively considered directions, the spin angular momentum would
be determined by the ratio

ω1 n
= =S (13)
ω2 2
so, one rotation in the poloidal direction each two in the toroidal direction
corresponds to spin 1/2 (fermions).
The case of spin 0 may be determined by further evolution of the horn torus
into a spheroidal vortex or correspond to simple, rotating clumps of SQ (or to
spinning phonons Ÿ4.5). The suggested geometry could be able to account for the
main mechanism suggested in this work, i.e. the attraction of SQ (gravity), due
to Bernoulli pressure, and the consequent emission of virtual photons, which
accounts for Coulomb's force and is necessary to maintain energy balance in
spite of the absorption. The peculiar geometry of the toroidal vortex would
then account for the charge of the particle: neutral if the vortex is a ring torus,
as there cannot be genesis of virtual photons and charged in the case of a horn
torus.
The theoretical mainstream describes the electrostatic eld of charged fermions
as the emission and reabsorption of virtual photons. In the hypothesis of gravity
as absorption of SQ occurring in fermions (Ÿ2) we have rst absorption and a
subsequent emission to maintain energy balance. If we then hypothesize the
emission of virtual photons as discrete packets of compressed SQ (Fig.4 right,
red arrow) we would start seeing how gravity can be related to electromag-
netism. Unlike normal photons, virtual photons can have a mass, since they're
packets of SQ not simple pulses [4]. The strenght of their momentum is for in-
stance evident when trying to bring together two magnets that repel each other.
Therefore, the vortex geometry (horn torus or ring torus) would be the deciding
factor for having respectively a charged or a neutral particle.

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Figure 4: evolution of a vortex tube into a horn torus vortex. This might justify the

compression of the quanta of the SQS into virtual photons (red arrow, on the right) within

the absorption-emission mechanism. In the center, the possible mechanism corresponding to

spin½, where the system returns in the same state after a toroidal rotation of 720° and a

poloidal rotation of 360°, after each quantum has owed along a Möbius-strip path. Such

two-components model (ω1 , ω2 ) may quantum mechanically explain any other kind of spin as

the ratio between the two rotations.

Since the vortex

1. is a closed path with constant strenght along its laments.

2. may be triggered by the perturbation (clumps of space's quanta ⇒ dark

matter?) of the ows occurring in the SQS, as for instance gravitational
ows or ows produced by the motion of other bodies

all three Helmholtz's theorems are respected.

A continuity equation for the vortex has in our case to account for an equi-
librium between absorbed and emitted quanta (emitted virtual photons), which
occurs through a quick sawtooth energy oscillation of the vortex-particle (Fig.5),
which reads
mef f (t) = (t − btc)ka + m0 , (14)

where mef f (t) is the time-depending eective mass of the particle, which
would rapidly oscillate between two values (m0, mmax ), and ka is a costant of
mass-energy absorption expressed in kg/s, whose value is ka = mγς /temission ,
i.e. the ratio between the mass of a virtual photon and the necessary time to
emit it from the vortex. The proper mass of a charged fermion would therefore
minimally oscillate and this fact would agree with the indeterminacy of quantum
mechanics. The oscillatory behavior of superuid vortices shown in Fig.5, might
also account for the phenomenon of Zitterbewegung (trembling motion), as an
interaction of the particle with the zero-point eld of quantum vacuum.

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Figure 5: sawtooth electro-gravitational oscillator for a charged particle expressing its rest
mass variation while producing gravitational pull and electrostatic eld. Vacuum contribution

corresponds to the absorption of SQ in the vortex.

It may be inferred that if no emission of virtual photons occurs (charge

neutrality) a particle would be compelled to decay, because of the increase of its
internal energy due to absorption of SQ. But this only has to occur in unbound
neutral particles, i.e. where no exchange of SQ with adjacent vortices occurs.
We indeed observe decay in unbound neutral particles such as isolated neutrons,
whose mean lifetime is 881 s. A prediction of this theory would be a greater
mass of isolated neutrons before they decay, if compared with the mass of bound
neutrons in a nucleus and, for instance, also that of a faster decay of neutral pions
(indeed 8.4 · 10−17 s) if compared with charged pions (2.6 · 10
−8
s), as it actually
occurs. Dierent is the case of the neutrino. Since it is a neutral particle, a
ring-torus vortex geometry would be suggested but this is incompatible with the
fact neutrinos are stable, albeit some studies suggest it can decay [38]. A simple
explanation to this apparent violation is that a neutrino possesses a horn-torus
geometry but its mass is too small to pack SQ into virtual photons, so they are
directionally re-emitted as smaller, trivial amounts or single quanta. Thus, we
assume that a neutrino is the smallest possible horn-torus vortex and its mass,
as for every other mass-endowed particle, arises from the SQ circulating in its
superuid structure.

To justify spin as vortex geometry, we also cite Recami, Salesi, Esposito and
Bogan, who underline how the internal kinetic energy of a particle associated
with spin can be identied as the quantum potential of Bohmian mechanics.
Recami and Salesi [17] reect on the fact that fermions' spin can be the source
of quantum potential. Salvatore Esposito [18], citing Recami and Salesi, denes
1
~vB = m
two velocity elds related to a quantum particle, one external, ∇S , with
∂ψ
S as the phase of the function ψ of the Schrödinger equation (i ∂t = ψH ), and
1 1 1 ∇R2
~vS = 2m ρ ∇ρ = 2m R2 as the internal velocity, with ~ = 1. Since we can
know the external initial conditions but not the initial conditions of internal
motion, and since quantum mechanics is based on a probabilistic formulation

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which comes into play exactly when we deal with incognizable parameters, he
asserts that the quantum potential of the particle is totally determined by its
internal motion ~vS × ~s, where ~s is the direction of spin. From [18] we have

1 1
Q = − m~vS2 − ∇ · ~vS (15)
2 2
and we see here that the quantum potential of a fermion may be determined
by the rotation itself of the vortex. Also Bogan [19], citing Esposito, indicates
the internal kinetic energy of a fermion as the spin itself (15). Spin alone would
not be however sucient to justify the absorption mechanism, thus the non-
zero, positive viscosity of the medium in which the vortex takes shape and the
mechanism of Bernoulli pressure are fundamental. The main output of the ab-
sorption mechanism is a pressure gradient around the vortex-particles. Because
of the SQ absorbed into the vortex, pressure decreases around a massive object
and this generates a velocity eld pointing toward the equipotential surface of
lowest pressure. This ow is the gravitational eld.
Indeed, we see (Fig.6) from the performed CFD simulations, that gravity is
an apparent force mediated by a pressure gradient in the SQS, produced by the
absorption process. On the left we have a velocity potential, causally linked to
a pressure potential (right). Since we are talking about pressure in SQS, also a
quantum potential is part of the play.

Figure 6: absorption velocity and pressure gradient from the performed CFD simu-
lations.

By substituting the known hydrodynamic acceleration due to the pressure

gradient, ~
~a = −∇(P/ρ), into Newton's second law we have

~ P = −∇Q
F~q = −m∇ ~ (16)
ρ
as the quantum force related to the pressure/density ratio, P/ρ, which re-
places the classical gravitational potential V. This formula (16) may therefore

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correspond to that of quantum gravity. Indeed, ~ P = g expresses the gravita-
−∇ ρ
tional acceleration. We can therefore reect on the following relations (cascading
gradients occurring in SQS and involved in quantum gravity):

P
−∇P ⇒ −∇φ, g = −∇V = −∇ ⇒ Fq = −∇Q. (17)
ρ
where φ is the velocity eld or velocity potential (Fig. 6 left), P is the
local pressure in the SQS, Fq the corresponding quantum force, Q the quan-
tum potential, g the gravitational acceleration and V the classical gravitational
potential. With a dierent reasoning, also Volovik [20] discusses osmotic rela-
tionships between pressure of the superuid vacuum and pressure in matter.

3.1 Dark energy repulsive action as internal pressure of

SQS.
We assume that the SQS is a quantum superuid, whose internal pressure may
act as a repulsive force in the universe, having a role in its expansion. Or in
simply balancing the action of gravity. This would be the eect of what we call
dark energy. We agree with Huang [21] who states that dark energy is the energy
density of the cosmic superuid, and dark matter arises from local uctuations of
the superuid density. In points of space where gravitational elds are irrelevant,
SQS internal pressure shifts toward its maximal value. On the contrary, within a
gravitational eld, pressure decreases because of the absorption of SQ and may
assume negative values. In this case the quantum force acts in the direction of
the center of the massive body, causing the reciprocal attraction (⇒gravity) of
the bodies which are immersed in the SQS.
In Fig. 7 we see the relationships (not in scale) among the four gradients
involved in uid quantum gravity and in the fact that the universe expands or
be static. At the axis origin we have to image a test mass. As a simplication
the spherical gradients are depicted as 2D Gaussians. The velocity eld and the
gravitational potential decrease with distance from the central massive body,
while pressure potential increases toward the value of SQS internal (repulsive)
pressure at innity. If we consider the internal pressure, we see in the gure
that also the quantum potential, which is proportional to pressure, increases
with distance and becomes negative (⇒attraction) by approaching the mass.
Where the curve of the quantum potential intersects the x-axis (points Λ, Λ0
in Fig. 7) the total quantum force acting on a body at that distance from the
mass centered at the axis origin is zero, similarly to a Lagrange point. Here the
gravitational quantum force is balanced by the quantum force of SQS internal
pressure and a lighter body would be stationary with respect to the considered
massive particle. Outward past the lambda boundary (Fig. 7 right) the repulsive
force of dark energy (⇒ SQS internal pressure) becomes dominant.

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Figure 7: with a test mass centered at the axis origin, the four Gaussians (not in scale with
respect to each other) represent in 2D, in causal order: the spherical gradient of absorption

velocity (φ), of pressure (P ), the quantum potential (Q) and the gravitational potential (V ).

Intrinsic pressure and repulsive quantum potential (which are proportional) reach their maxi-

mal values with distance at innity. On the right, the spherical surface of equilibrium between

the two opposite potentials (Q− , Q+ ) attractive and repulsive, analogous to the concept of

Lagrange point.

4 Superuid quantum gravity in general relativ-

ity.
We immediately notice that a sphere absorbing the uid in which it is immersed
generates a radial attraction eld (as that generated by a vortex-particle in our
hypothesis) equal to the Schwarzschild solution,

 −1  
2Gm 2Gm
ds2 = 1− dr2 + r2 (dθ2 + sin2 θdφ2 ) − c2 1 − 2 dt2 (18)
c2 r c r

suggesting that the metric tensor of GR may be expressed through uid

dynamic forces. Superuid quantum space whose hydrodynamics produces time
(Planck time as the time a quantized vortex needs to complete a rotation) and
inuences clocks through gravity, the latter described as a uid phenomenon
itself, instead of deformable geometric space-time (Fig. 8, 9, 10).

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Figure 8: how the presence of a massive body curves spacetime (a) or absorbs uid quantum
space (b), here in analogy with a bell-mouth spillway.

Figure 9: the Lense-Thirring eect according to Einstein's curved spacetime (a) and to uid
dynamics (b). Here as an analogy with the Coriolis eect in a cyclone.

Fig. 9 describes the strong hydrodynamic analogy with a cyclone (⇒Coriolis

eect), where the gravitomagnetic eld related to the Lense-Thirring eect is
expressed as

4 mωR2
B=− cos θ (19)
5 r3
and the Coriolis force can be written as:

FC = −2mω(ωR)uR . (20)

where the dierence between a 3D (gravitomagnetic eld) and a 2D (Coriolis)

model has to be however considered.

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Figure 10: Gravitational lensing (a) and the motion of a satellite (b) according to SQS, still
in analogy with a bell-mouth spillway representing the gravity of a star which curves space

(in our case, which absorbs SQS).

Other eects which can be described by the hydrodynamics of SQS are the
gravitational lensing:

ˆ ˆ ~b
~ ξ)
α̂( ~ = 4G d2 ξ 0 dzρ(ξ~0 , z) (21)
c2 |~b|2
with b ≡ ξ~ − ξ~0 , where ξ, z are coordinates and ~ˆ
α is the deection angle,
which in Fig. 10.a is determined by vector interaction between light's and space
quanta's momenta (gravitational ow), and their absorption is illustrated as
water owing into a spillway (acting here as an interposed star).
While in Fig. 10.b SQS's hydrodynamics describes orbital motion, since the
angular velocity for any inverse square law, such as Gauss's law for gravity and
(12), is given as

µ
u(θ) = − A cos(θ − θ0 ) (22)
h2

where A and θ0 are arbitrary constants, h the angular momentum and µ the
standard gravitational parameter.
All this suggests that the found solutions to Einstein's eld equations could
be fully replaced by hydrodynamic solutions based on modied quantum Navier
Stokes equations. Einstein's spacetime as a single interwoven continuum is here
described by the interdependence space↔time, since time would arise from the
hydrodynamics of the SQS and, also in our case, it wouldn't be absolute but
inuenced by gravity, which in our framework is per se a superuid phenomenon.

4.1 The Michelson-Morley test: does the ether wind cor-

respond to the gravitational eld?
When look at gravity as the absorption of SQ (Ÿ2), a gravitational eld corre-
sponds then to a ow of SQ moving toward the center of the absorbing mass .
This fact motivates us to reconsider what the Michelson-Morley experiment [22]
has actually demonstrated and to conclude that:

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 ˆ the MM-test has only demonstrated the non-existence of relative motion
Earth-ether but not the absolute non-existence of an ether, if we assume,
within the hypothesis of superuid quantum gravity, that the ether wind
corresponds to the gravitational eld.

In this case the ether wind wouldn't be dependent on Earth's orbital motion.
Moreover the rotation of a celestial body about its axis could hydrodynamically
cause the Lense-Thirring eect by bending the incoming ether wind (Fig.9),
i.e. by bending the gravitational eld. Another eect caused by such a kind of
(radial) ether wind would be the gravitational lensing (Fig.10). These are several
hints matching the predictions of general relativity which therefore suggest to
proceed with the hypothesis of a superuid space and of quantum gravity as
absorption of SQ into vortex-particles. The consequences of a liquid space as
far as the propagation of light is concerned are likewise interesting and have
been better discussed in [4], suggesting the analogy photon = spinning phonon
through the SQS.

In the MM-experiment the ether wind would have therefore been investi-
gated in an erroneous way. A test by M.Grusenick using a dierently oriented
Michelson interferometer seems to have detected a radial ether wind [37].
Furthermore, the existence of a uid medium would compel us to reconsider
the meaning of Hubble's law [4, 40], since the fact that the redshift is greater
for more distant galaxies could simply mean that light loses energy by traveling
through the SQS because of its non-zero viscosity and that we are observing
a sort of tired light, though dierent from the phenomenon hypothesized by
Zwicky. In this case the universe would not be accelerating its expansion and
probably it would be not even expanding, freeing us from the necessity of produc-
ing and explaining several paradoxes of modern cosmology, such as the cosmic
ination and the accelerated expansion.

4.2 Gravitational waves as periodic pressure variations

propagating through a SQS.
Gravitational waves may be dened as a periodic (negative) pressure waves in
the SQS caused by the variable position of a quadrupole in time and therefore
corresponding to a variable pace in the absorption of SQ. In this case grav-
itational waves arise as negative pulses propagating through SQS and not as
space-time deformations. Since, as said, we think that also photons can be
described as pulses (phonons) through the SQS (see Ÿ4.5) it is obvious that
gravitational waves travel at the speed of light. And, not surprisingly, also pho-
tons, as positive pulses that carry energy (like sound does), can provide kinetic
energy to a target (radiation pressure), exactly as for gravitational waves act-
ing on LIGO's test masses, where the pressure is in this case negative. Again,
it would be a hydrodynamic quantum phenomenon and no deformation of a
geometric spacetime would be necessary to explain gravitational waves.

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 The changing pace in the absorption of space's quanta, occurring twice the
orbital frequency, causes periodic decompressions in SQS, currently interpreted
as a deformation of space-time. Also in this case the quantum potential arises
from pressure variations. Quantum-like gravity waves but in a classical uid
have been investigated by Nottale [27].

Simplifying the theory of relativity. Special rel-

ativity according to a superuid quantum space:
gravity as the sole cause of all relativistic eects.
4.3 Fluid principle of equivalence: is relativistic mass in-
crease rather a matter of drag weight?
Because of the presence of SQS and according to the mechanism of superuid
quantum gravity, also translational motion would put a moving body in the
condition of being subject to a gravitational eld, as an apparent ow, which in
this case acts in the opposite direction to motion. We could call it drag weight.
We can express that as a uid equivalence principle (FEP) (Fig. 11).

Figure 11: Fluid equivalence principle: it is impossible to distinguish between the two

equivalent situations of a body moving at a given velocity through a stationary uid and a

uid owing toward a stationary body at the same velocity. This would also occur as far

as a body interacting with the SQS is concerned, where the equivalence is between being

stationary in a gravitational eld (being subject to an ether wind having a given velocity in a

given point of the eld) or moving through the SQS at the same velocity, i.e. being subject

to a gravitational eld induced by motion which increases according to Lorentz factor.

Which obtains as:

vΦ = vsq + v (23)

where vΦ is the velocity of the total resultant ow acting on the moving
body, determined by the vector sum of the velocity at which SQ are absorbed
(vsq , drift velocity of SQ) in the point of the gravitational eld where the body is
located at a given instant and of the body's translational velocity (v) through
the uid space. According to the FEP, any translational velocity therefore

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provokes an apparent gravitational eld (gΦ ) acting on the accelerated body
and detected as a weight force opposite to motion (drag weight,WΦ ), Fig.12.
Other cases of quantum vacuum friction have been discussed by several authors
[23, 24, 28] and also Higgs eld is said to possess a certain viscosity: potential
relationships between these elds, or a possible correspondence, should be then
investigated.

Figure 12: Weight acting in the opposite direction to motion (drag weight, WΦ ) due to the

apparent gravitational eld caused by motion through SQS. At low, everyday speeds this eect

wouldn't be noticed, since SQS's viscosity is quasi-zero, as for any superuid, but the eect

of apparent viscosity would play a key role at relativistic velocities (extreme shear stress),

increasingly opposing acceleration.

This is in agreement with the relativistic eect of mass increase, which would
actually be a resistance to acceleration due to an increasing gravitational force
acting in the opposite direction to motion. This issue is clear if we suppose that,
when dealing with accelerated particles in synchrotrons, we make a dimensional
mistake, swapping kgf with kg, i.e. interpreting a weight force (WΦ ) pointing
in the opposite direction to the supplied acceleration as a mass increase (red
color in Eq. 24 expresses the hypothesized misconstruction of current physics).
If drag weight grew according to Lorentz factor (Ÿ4.5.1), (35), it could be the
cause of the so-called relativistic mass increase:

F
a= . (24)
m+WΦ
The new equation expressing the total weight of a body in uid quantum
gravity would be:

Wtot = m(g + gΦ ) (25)

where the accelerations g and gΦ may point in dierent directions, according

to the presence of a gravitational eld and/or translational motion.

It is possible to proof the FEP in Einstein's relativity by equating the cause of

time dilation in special relativity (velocity) to that in general relativity (gravity):

∆t ∆t
∆t0 = q =q (26)
v2 RS
1− c2
1− r

hence

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 v2 RS 2GM 2GM
2
= = 2 =⇒ v 2 = (27)
c r c r r
and

p √
v= 2rg = 2Φ, (28)

where (28) relates velocity and gravity (as gravitational potential Φ) in the
formula of the second cosmic velocity, also meaning that a given velocity in SR
corresponds to a certain gravity (drag weight), equivalent to that of a gravita-
tional eld g in a point where the absorption of SQ occurs at the same velocity.
Fig. 13 indeed shows how a gravitational eld corresponds to an absorption
velocity eld (velocity potential) analogous to that of Fig. 6 from the CFD
simulations (absorption of SQ ⇒ sink at the origin) and, on the right, the
equivalence between translational velocity and absorption velocity of a gravita-
tional eld, which explains the relativistic phenomenon of illusory mass increase
as drag weight (24) and unies the cause of time dilation of SR and GR (gravity
in both cases).

ˆ All relativistic eects could be therefore explained through the sole action
of gravity, described as a hydrodynamic force occurring in SQS. Besides
what described in Fig. 8, 9, 10, also mass increase (or better, what would
be the current interpretation of drag weight), time dilation and conse-
quently Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction, which depends on time dilation
and does not need to be discussed. What is relative in superuid quan-
tum relativity is SQ's velocity (vΦ ) with respect to a frame of reference:
it produces or varies the gravitational force acting in the frame, also mod-
ifying time, as discussed below.

Figure 13: equivalence of a gravitational eld (left) and a velocity eld (center), where

the latter corresponds to the absorption velocity (vsq ). In both cases we have sink at the

origin and equipotential surfaces. On the right, a given translational velocity (SR) through

SQS corresponds to being in a point of a gravitational eld (GR) where space's quanta are

absorbed at the same velocity.

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4.4 Time dilation and length contraction in superuid rel-
ativity.
Absolute time cannot exist. Indeed, according to which clock would it exist if
any clock (also atomic, biological etc.) functions in a precise environment, where
dierent parameters (e.g. temperature) and forces (such as gravity) act on it?
Time exists in physics if a clock in a reference system can measure it and dierent
measurements produce dierent time scales. Absolute time may perhaps exist
in philosophy or in religion but that's a dierent story. Also in our superuid
approach to nature, gravity exists and acts onto clocks. As every physicist
knows, the right locution should not be time dilation but clocks retardation.
Since we will replace Einstein's curved space-time with the hydrodynamics of
SDE, this approach only considers a at universe (according to observations)
in which pressure forces (Fig. 6, 8-10) mime the eects of a curved space-time
and can account for all relativistic eects of GR. But also locally, space-time is
at. We can say that the superuid universe is Minkowskian.
The reason why time dilation occurs also in our approach is the increasingly
viscous environment in which clocks, considered in their (quantum) mechanical
dynamics, have to work by approaching the speed of sound in the SQS (Fig.
15). Not by chance then, clocks retardation follows the same curve of appar-
ent viscosity that we can see in that gure. As a simple metaphore we could
imagine an athlete who has to run through a more and more viscous medium.
Thus, no wonder if up on a certain point gravity is also able to stop the clock.
The reason why also gravity, besides velocity (which, as seen, provokes appar-
ent viscosity), cause in GR clock retardation is clearly explained in the uid
equivalence principle (23).

According to the mainstream, Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction (relativistic

length contraction) depends on time dilation and consequently on gravity. This
eect therefore exists in this superuid approach too. It aects measurements
taken in two dierent frames of reference which are in relative motion, when
compared. Let us observe Fig. 14.

Figure 14: Relativistic length contraction. According to an inertial frame of reference (R),
the length AB measured in the frame R0 is shorter, since it is measured as ` = AB = v(t0 − t)
but being clocks retarded by motion (by the apparent viscosity of dark energy, for which
 p 
Lorentz factor applies,` = v ∆t/ 1 − (v/c)2 ) the∆t will be dierent in the two frames, as
well as the measured length. The letter d refers to a detector (e.g. a photocell) which registers

the instants (t, t0 ) in which it is aligned with A and B.

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 Be R an inertial frame of reference and R0 a frame moving with velocity v .
It is a relative velocity, since according to R0 it is the other frame to travel at
that velocity. The length ` = AB is measured in both frames by the formula

` = v∆t (29)

being ∆t = t0 − t the dierence between the instant in which the detector d

is aligned with B and that in which it is aligned with A. We know that, since
motion always occurs through dark energy, Lorentz factor actually aects (29),
so we have to write
∆t
` = vq (30)
v2
1− c2

Since R does not move through dark energy (30) becomes (29), thus we have

∆t(R) > ∆t(R0 ) =⇒ `R > `R0 (31)

Clocks tick slower in R0 then ∆t is shorter in that frame, as well as the

measured length.
There is often a mistaken belief about the relativistic phenomenon of length
contraction. Indeed, as demonstrated above, no actual shortening occurs, only
measurements are aected due to time dilation. Also the extended mean life
of cosmic muons is therefore due to clocks retardation. To conclude, special
relativity holds also in the superuid approach, which moreover explains why
no physical body in the universe can exceed the speed of light (Fig. 15).

4.5 Photon as a phonon through a superuid quantum

space.
If space is (lled with a) superuid then light has to propagate through it.
We hypothesize here that photons are pulses through the SQS, i.e. that a
photon is actually a special spin-1 phonon propagating through the SQS, we
could say through dark energy. Let us remember that the basis assumption of
the Michelson-Morley experiment, which arms that light propagates without
a medium, changes when we consider quantum vacuum (quantum eld theory)
and the mechanism suggested for superuid quantum gravity, according to which
the ether wind is radial and coincides with the gravitational eld. Thus, once
established that the MM-experiment has not actually (i.e. if we consider a radial
incoming ether wind) disproved the existence of a luminiferous ether and since
we think light propagates in a superuid universe, full of dark energy, we see that
light could be nothing more than the sound of dark energy and c the speed of
sound thorough dark energy. A sound that we perceive through our eyes.  Wie?
Hör' ich das Licht? , wondered Tristan2 . Waves existing in nature would reduce
to only one type (medium-dependent) and photon electromagnetic eld could
be interpreted as a periodic excitation of dark energy's quanta, producing a

2  What? Is it the light I hear? , R.Wagner, Tristan und Isolde, Act 3, Scene 2.

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transversal wave due to spin [29, 30] and dark energy dilatancy (Fig. 15), in
agreement with Stokes' theory of light propagation.
Let us then consider the formula indicating the speed of a mechanical wave
q
K
through a uid, a= ρ , in which K is the bulk modulus, referring in our case
1
to dark energy compressibility. By putting βS = K as isentropic compressibility,
we see

1
a= √ (32)
βS ρ
If we consider βS = βd as dark energy's isentropic compressibility, ρd as its
density, c as the speed of sound in dark energy and we equate βd ρd = 0 µ0 , we
get

1
c= √ (33)
βd ρd
expressing the speed of a photon as that of a phonon through superuid
dark energy (through the SQS), mathematically analogous to √ 1
c =
ε0 µ0 , as
resulting from Maxwell's equations. Maxwell himself derived the expressions
for the dielectric constant (ε0 ) and the magnetic permeability (µ0 ) of vacuum
in terms of transverse elasticity and density of the ether. We now say of dark
energy.
We also have to observe light propagation as a phenomenon of second sound
through dark energy, as in superuids energy is dissipated as heat at small
scales by phonon radiation [39] and we know that bodies radiate heat through
the emission of photons (e.g. infrared light). After all, we know that both
photons and phonons

ˆ are bosons [31]

ˆ have wave-particle duality [32, 33]

femit −fobs
ˆ obey the doppler eect z= fobs

ˆ are symmetric under exchange,|α, βi = |β, αi

ˆ can be created by repeatedly applying the creation operator, b†

ˆ share the same momentum, where that of the phonon is pph ≡ ~k = λh ,with
2π
k= λ . Hence the parallelism: radiation pressure ⇔sound pressure.

ˆ can produce photoelectric eect and Compton scattering thanks to their

momentum

ˆ can possess spin [29, 30]

ˆ can form squeezed coherent states [34]

ˆ can interact via parametric down conversion.

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 1
Both for photons and phonons,
2 ~ω is vacuum's (we say dark energy's) con-
tribution, where the harmonic oscillator eigenvalues for the mode ωk (k is the
wave number) are:

 
1
En = n+ ~ωk n = 1, 2, 3, ... (34)
2
To conrm a false vacuum we see in (34) that also for n=0 the energy is not
zero. This means that what we think to be the vacuum actually contains energy
and according to E = mc2 energy implies a certain mass density. There is a
medium throughout the universe owning density ρ 6= 0 which light propagates
through. In other words and according to quantum physics, light does not
propagate in the vacuum.
It is also important to point out that light is a transverse wave and transverse
sound waves usually propagate in solids, not in uids. However, the quantum
(granular) nature of the SQS would confer it a dilatant response under very
high shear stress and this recalls Stokes' theory of light propagation, whereby
the ether is uid at lower speeds but becomes rigid at higher frequencies, being
then able to support light propagation without interfering with the motion of
the celestial bodies. In Ÿ4.5.1, we resort to the dilatancy of the SQS under
extreme shear stress also to explain Lorentz factor, seen as the rheogram of the
SQS (of dark energy), that is to explain the fact that the speed of light is the
upper speed limit in the universe.
According to the photon-phonon analogy, we see that the speed of light is
not constant in the universe if the background parameters of dark energy, i.e.
its density and therefore its compressibility vary.
We cannot directly detect dark energy in the same way we cannot detect any
sound until it is emitted by a source. Also, it would be in this case more correct
to say that a particle provokes or produces a photon (dark energy phonon) not
that it is emitted by the particle. So, to conclude we should reect on the fact
that dark energy (if excited) might be not dark at all.

4.5.1 Reinterpretation of Lorentz factor, mass-energy equivalence

and Hubble's law.

If the SQS acted as a non-newtonian, dilatant uid under extreme shear stress
(bodies accelerated through SQS at relativistic velocities), this fact would justify
the asymptote at c to translational velocity. Being moreover a dilatant uid
would conrm the granular [35] (quantum) nature of space, or at least of what
lls up the physical space, constituting the 69% of the energy in the Universe.
When a photon is a phonon of space's quanta through the SQS, the pa-
rameter β in Lorentz factor becomes intelligible as the ratio between the speed
of a body and that of sound through the SQS. Let us say the speed of sound
through dark energy. It is assumed that the speed of sound is the maximum
 
v2
speed reachable through dilatant uids. Indeed, the ratio is expressed as
c2

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an adimensional parameter analogous to the ratio between the speed of a body
 2
v v 2


and of sound (vs ) through other superuids [36]:
vs =⇒ c ≡ β2.

ˆ Within SQS, Lorentz factor is then hydrodynamically interpretable as

vΦ 1
γ ≡ arcsin0 =r (35)
vs 
vΦ
2
1− vs

indicating the asymptote at vs = c, where vs , is the speed of sound through

the uid space and vΦ (23) is the relative velocity of SQ in a given frame of
reference. By approaching vΦ = vs (i.e. v = c, if in the FEP formula vsq = 0),
uid space's dilatancy would play more and more a strategic role in preventing
further acceleration.
Valid the analogy photon-phonon, c2 corresponds then to the square of the
2 1 1
sound velocity c = vs2 = 2
ρ0 0 . We note the similarity with vs ≡ ρa κ in [36].

Figure 15: Lorentz factor as the rheogram of the superuid quantum space (dark energy).
Because of its quantum, granular nature, the SQS would behave as a dilatant uid under

extreme shear stress. This implies that the so-called relativistic mass increase is actually the

eect of the apparent viscosity (we call it drag weight). It is easy to understand that the

speed of sound through the dilatant uid is the maximum speed possible. This would explain

the limit to acceleration veried in synchrotrons.

By calculating the speed of light as in (33), we see that the expression 1/c2
corresponds to the product of the fundamental parameters of dark energy

1
= βd ρd (36)
c2
so the mass-energy formula E = mc2 becomes

m
E= (37)
D

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 where D = βd ρd . We see that dark energy density divides mass, which in our
view is indeed a hydrodynamic manifestation of SDE (⇒vortex-particles). In
short, the energy of a given mass can be measured in relationship to dark energy
density per unit volume and to its compressibility. In other words, Einstein's
mass-energy equation would indicate how much energy from SQS is entrapped
in a body of mass m, given a specic density and compressibility of the SQS (of
dark energy).
Now Lorentz factor can be rewritten in the (still adimensional) form:

vΦ 1 1
γ ≡ arcsin0 =r 2 = p1 − v 2 β ρ . (38)
vsd 
vΦ Φ d d
1− vsd

where vΦ expresses the FEP in the considered frame of reference. It means

√ 1
that (38) could be used also in place of if we knew the velocity of the
1− Rrs
ow of SQ in a given point of a gravitational eld (Fig. 13).

Conclusion
If the single hypothesis of massive particles as vortices of space's quanta in
a superuid quantum vacuum, which obey Gauss's law for gravity (incoming
ux ⇒ attraction of space's quanta determining a simple formula for quantum
gravity as expressed in (16)) generates a series of consequences which range from
describing and simplifying special and general relativity, up to letting us better
understand what a fundamental particle can actually be (a quantized vortex, not
a dimensionless point) and linking gravity to electromagnetism, it should be then
considered for mathematical and experimental in-depth analysis. Furthermore,
the hypothesis of SQ attraction into massive particle (thus, also towards the
center of the Earth) solves the incompatibility of a uid space (of an ether)
with the outcome of the Michelson-Morley experiment, since an ether wind
corresponding to the gravitational eld conforms to the known experimental
evidences, such as light beams deection and gravitational redshift. Finally, the
description of photons as spinning phonons (spinning since produced by vortices)
propagating through a superuid space would reduce waves which exist in nature
to only one type (medium-dependent). Indeed, according to QFT a real vacuum
does not exist and the eigenvalue of the harmonic oscillator (for photons and
phonons) for n=0 is not zero. We could therefore state that entia non sunt
multiplicanda praeter necessitatem, as it seems that a superuid approach may
be able to explain nature without extra dimensions, strings, gravitons, cosmic
ination [4] or other dei ex machina. Nothing appears to be really fundamental
but space's quanta, or better those quanta that ll up the whole space, probably
corresponding to that 69% of mass-energy necessary to avoid the gravitational
collapse of the universe (expressed by the cosmological constantΛ of Einstein
eld equations) called dark energy. Space may be full of dark energy quanta,

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whose hydrodynamics explains special and general relativity and tells us what
particles and light are.

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Annex.
Other images and charts from the performed CFD simulations.

Figure 16: Simulation settings

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 Figure 17: radial ow obtained in the simulations

Figure 18: Test for force dependence on absorption velocity: sphere diameter 1mm,
distance 2mm. Tested velocities: 50, 100, 200, 500, 700, 1000 m/s. Other tested
conditions (50, 100, 200, 500 m/s) are shown in Fig. 6 and 7.

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Figure 19:

Figure 20:

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Figure 21: Test for force dependence according to the distance between the spheres.

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