The Aharonov-Bohm effect as laminar current

In the Aharonov-Bohm experiment, an electron beam is split and sent around a shielded solenoid. The magnetic field stays inside the coil, yet the recombined beams show a shifted interference pattern. Standard physics explains this by treating the magnetic vector potential as physically real, which in one interpretation gives the effect a non-local quality.

RSI offers a mechanical account. The solenoid acts as a vortex pump. Its turbulent core stays inside, but the laminar (smooth, layered) current it drives in the Eternal Consonance reaches well beyond the coil. What physics calls the magnetic vector potential corresponds to the circulation of this current: its total around a closed loop equals the magnetic flux trapped inside.

Each electron is a matter-knot whose wake carries a twist, its charge. That twist couples to the circulation, so the two beams passing on either side of the solenoid pick up phases that differ by the charge times the enclosed flux, divided by ħ. The shift does not depend on the electrons' speed or travel time. It reverses for positrons and repeats each time the flux grows by h/e, exactly as measured. Akira Tonomura's team confirmed the effect in 1986 with magnets sealed inside superconducting shields. In RSI, the phase shift is a record of the medium's circulation, with no force acting on the electron.