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Jeff Vroom

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Jeff Vroom

This is a compilation of the work of many great scientists. I had the inspiration along the way, still have more curation to do. I’m an Engineering Fellow at Posit PBC - a code-first data science company that supports open source. I’m pretty good at software, but a novice when it comes to physics, and this is an open source side project.

In June 2025, after seeing one of the first Vera Rubin photos on a hi-res monitor, I had a realization that dark matter had to be vortices and orbital systems spinning at close to the speed of light. They had to be in the atom and in space. In my mind’s eye, I saw why it has to be this way. The universe is not weird, and there’s an explanation for cellular dynamics, the Gulf Stream, magnetic fields.

I eventually found these five amazing theories that paved the last mile to the math that realized that vision:

  1. Pilot wave hydrodynamics by Bush, Oza, et al.1
  2. Volovik’s theories from “The Universe in a Helium Droplet”2
  3. Simeonov’s mapping of the Madelung equations as a fluid form of the Schrödinger equation3
  4. Khoury’s papers on Dark Matter Superfluidity4
  5. Larichev & Reznik, Saffman, Aftalion, Sonin, Blatter, Fetter, El & Hoefer for the math behind modons, vortices, and shock waves5

Then refined it with dozens more.

If you see what I’m seeing and would like to help, reach out! If there is interest, this would make a great open source project to refine this discovery.

Acknowledgements

My gratitude to all of the science that underpins this discovery.

In particular, Volovik, Bush, Oza, Simeonov, Zloshchastiev, Khoury, Larichev and Reznik provided the foundational math and inspiration.

I’m also grateful to my amazing employer Posit PBC, supporters of open source software for data science. This is an unaffiliated side project, and naturally open source.

Thanks to David Scott Thompson for feedback that led to the Bernoulli integral used in the gravity section.

Footnotes

  1. Bush, J.W.M. & Oza, A.U., “Hydrodynamic Quantum Analogs,” Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics 52, 2020. A vibrating particle in a responsive medium reproduces quantized orbits, tunneling, and interference — the template for the electron. See also Dagan & Bush, “Hydrodynamic quantum field theory: the free particle,” Comptes Rendus Mécanique, 2020. [R1, R1b]↩︎

  2. Volovik, G.E., The Universe in a Helium Droplet, Oxford University Press, 2003. The single most important source: emergent speed of light (Ch. 7), two-fluid model (Ch. 4–5), gauge fields from vortex cores (Ch. 22–25), and cosmological constant self-tuning (Ch. 29–30). [R2]↩︎

  3. Simeonov, L., “Quantum mechanics as a two-fluid stochastic theory,” arXiv:2509.02868, 2025. Shows that the osmotic velocity of a counter-rotating fluid derives from the HVBK mutual friction force, formally bridging superfluid hydrodynamics to quantum mechanics. [R3]↩︎

  4. Khoury, J., “Dark Matter Superfluidity,” arXiv:1507.01860, 2015; Berezhiani, L. & Khoury, J., “Theory of Dark Matter Superfluidity,” Phys. Rev. D 92, 103510, 2015. Dark matter as a superfluid on galactic scales, with a MOND-like phonon-mediated force and CDM-to-MOND transition at the Landau critical velocity. [R4, R26]↩︎

  5. Larichev, V.D. & Reznik, G.M., “Two-dimensional solitary Rossby waves,” Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 231, 1976 (modon boundary matching, K = j_{11}^2+1); Saffman, P.G., Vortex Dynamics, Cambridge, 1992 (dipole dynamics, lattice stability); Aftalion, A. et al., Phys. Rev. A 71, 023611, 2005 (vortex lattice energy functional); Fetter, A.L., Rev. Mod. Phys. 81, 647, 2009 (GP healing length, 1/\sqrt{2} factor); El, G.A. & Hoefer, M.A., “Dispersive shock waves and modulation theory,” Physica D 333, 2016 (dispersive shock waves). [R5, R6, R7, R8, R80]↩︎