Text: "Wavefront dislocations in the Aharonov-Bohm effect and its water wave analogue." Presents a most interesting water wave analogy used to study the wavefronts of the wave discussed by Aharonov and Bohm. In the case where waves encounter an irrotational "bathtub vortex," the flux parameter depends upon the frequency of the waves and the circulation of the vortex. Experiments show structures in agreement. Very similar to the scalar electromagnetics view of a scalar (compression and rarefaction, or longitudinal) electromagnetic wave in vacuum, when made in the ordinary manner, yielding a structure with "spinholes" where spinning electrons and and nucleons were located in the transmitting antenna at wave launching. This imperfect or ragged scalar longitudinal wave is what is what is normally referred to as a "transverse" vacuum EM wave in conventional theory. Eur. J. Phys.. (Great Britain). 1(3), 1980. p. 154-162.

See Also: Bohm-Aharonov effect, scalar electromagnetics, scalar interferometry, foundations of physics, quantum mechanics, charged particles, scalar waves, spin holes.

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