Waves & Whirlpools: on Energy, Structure, Matter, & Antimatter (Part III)

This post is part of a series, (read Part I and Part II) introducing a heuristic method for thinking about spacetime and charge that I like to call "the pond". Electromagnetic waves are often described as being similar to waves on water, and it turns out the analogy can be extended--if photons are waves, charged particles are like whirlpools: excitations with a little bit of angular momentum to them which allows them to persist.So far, we've established that vortices (or eddies, if you prefer) o...