NeoGravity

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“Tait began cataloguing knots in order to enumerate candidate atoms. The atoms were wrong. The catalogue became a branch of topology still in use.”

Kelvin's Vortex Model of the Aether: Why It Failed, Whether the Reason Transfers, and What Its Mathematics Left Behind

Kelvin proposed that atoms are knotted vortex rings in a frictionless fluid. It failed for five identifiable reasons. Three of those reasons do not transfer to the Plenum proposed here, and two do. The paper states which, rather than treating the failure as undifferentiated.

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Cover of Kelvin's Vortex Model of the Aether
Author
John Salvatore Guagliardo
Series
Theory of NeoGravity & Ether Dynamics, Paper 5
DOI
10.5281/zenodo.22110575
Archive
https://zenodo.org/records/22110575
Licence
Open access preprint. Not peer reviewed.