Effective Electric & Magnetic Fluids

In a vacuum, electromagnetism can be understood in terms of effective incompressible fluids:

 OBJECT CORRESPONDENCE
  electric field  electric fluid velocity
  magnetic field ⋅ speed of light  magnetic fluid velocity
  charge  electric fluid mass rate
  current density  electric fluid density ⋅ acceleration
  electric constant   electric fluid density
  magnetic constant ⋅ speed of light squared   reciprocal of magnetic fluid density

Accelerations create vortices.  Circulations equal acceleration fluxes divided by the speed of light. 

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