The quantum potential as field pressure

The Madelung translation produces one extra term, the quantum potential Q. RSI treats it as the most important element of the translation. In standard quantum mechanics, Q is seen as a troubling non-local force that pushes a particle so it obeys statistical distributions, with no defined physical mechanism.

In RSI, Q is no longer a mathematical ghost. In ordinary hydrodynamics, the equivalent term is the internal pressure of a fluid, and it depends entirely on how density varies through space. The theory holds that Q is the structural stiffness of the Eternal Consonance, the local application of its 0.73 N baseline tension. Where the knot-density of the medium changes, it exerts a real hydrostatic pressure on the matter-knot and steers its path.

Taken together with the vortex-pump account, RSI concludes that the Aharonov-Bohm effect is evidence for a substantial vacuum. The electron is never alone in a void. It is always coupled to the hidden currents of the medium.