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<p>Create/expand category description</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>This category collects &#039;&#039;&#039;vortex theories&#039;&#039;&#039; — accounts in which matter, fields or the structure of space itself are understood as circulation, rotation or eddies in a continuous medium.<br /> <br /> The idea has a long and respectable pedigree. Descartes explained planetary motion by vortices in a plenum; Helmholtz&#039;s theorems on vortex motion in an ideal fluid led Lord Kelvin to propose in 1867 that atoms are &#039;&#039;&#039;knotted vortex rings&#039;&#039;&#039; in the aether, a theory pursued seriously by Tait and Thomson for two decades and abandoned only when the aether itself fell out of favour. Kelvin&#039;s programme is the direct ancestor of both modern knot theory and the ring models collected under [[:Category:Toroidal Ring]].<br /> <br /> Entries here include vortex models of the electron and other particles, vortex accounts of gravitation and inertia, plasma vortex and filament structures (see [[:Category:Plasma]]), fluid-dynamic analogies for field behaviour, and cosmological models built on rotation.<br /> <br /> [[Category:Structure]]</div>

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