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Hydrodynamics of the Physical Vacuum: I. Scalar Quantum Sector

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Physical vacuum is a special superfluid medium. Its motion is described by the Navier–Stokes equation having two slightly modified terms that relate to internal forces. They are the pressure gradient and the dissipation force because of viscosity. The modifications are as follows: (a) the pressure gradient contains an added term describing the pressure multiplied by the entropy gradient; (b) time-averaged viscosity is zero, but its variance is not zero. Owing to these modifications, the Navier–Stokes equation can be reduced to the Schrödinger equation describing behavior of a particle into the vacuum, which looks like a superfluid medium populated by enormous amount of virtual particle–antiparticle pairs.

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  2. It is interesting to note that manifestation of the viscosity of the physical vacuum on the cosmic scale can give explanation of phenomena of the “Pioneer anomaly” [3] and the tired light through the quantum Hubble’s law [2].

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The author thanks Denise Puglia, Mike Cavedon, and Pat Noland for useful and valuable remarks and offers. The author thanks also Miss Pipa (Quantum Portal administrator) for preparing a program drawing Fig. 1. The author thanks the reviewers for the constructive critique and proposals.

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Sbitnev, V.I. Hydrodynamics of the Physical Vacuum: I. Scalar Quantum Sector. Found Phys 46, 606–619 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-015-9980-8

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