Benjamin B. Dayton
Benjamin B. Dayton | |
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| Known for | Hydrodynamic model of elementary particles and atomic structure |
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| Fields | Physics |
Benjamin B. Dayton is a researcher and author known for proposing a hydrodynamic model of elementary particles, atomic structure, and fields, published in the journal Physics Essays. He is listed in The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists.
Ideas
Dayton proposes a hydrodynamic theory of particles and fields in which the only basic particles carrying mass are the positron and the electron. In his model the positron acts as a source and the electron as a sink for the flow of an ideal, incompressible "primordial fluid," with the fluid returning from a sink to a source through a channel at velocity c. He develops this framework further into a hydrodynamic model of the electron structure of atoms, in which electron cores are subject to a virtual orbital motion relative to the primordial fluid and arrange themselves into nested concentric shells.
These proposals lie outside the accepted framework of quantum mechanics and the Standard Model, which do not treat particles as sources and sinks in a fluid medium. Dayton's articles on the subject appeared in Physics Essays, including "Hydrodynamic model of the electron structure of atoms" (Physics Essays, Vol. 28, No. 4, 2015).