Falaco Solitons

— Cosmic strings in a swimming pool. Abstract: A new dynamical bifurcation mechanism finally explains the formation of topological defects experimentally observed and defined in 1986 as Falaco Solitons. The Falaco Solitons are topologically universal phenomena created experimentally by a macroscopic rotational dynamics in a continuous media with a discontinuity surface, such as that found in a swimming pool. The topologically coherent structure of Falaco Solitons replicates certain features found at all physical scales, from spiral arm galaxies and cosmic strings to microscopic hadrons. The easy to replicate experiment indicates the creation of "stationary" thermo-dynamic states (or solitons) far from equilibrium, which are locally unstable but are globally stabilized. Several exact solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations are demonstrated to admit bifurcations to Falaco Solitons. It is conjectured that the universal coherent topological features of the Falaco Solitons can appear as cosmological realizations of Wheeler's wormholes, could represent spin pairing mechanisms in the microscopic Fermi surface, and exhibit the confinement problem of sub microscopic quarks on the end of a string, or are perhaps realizations of sub-submicroscopic strings connecting branes. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––— c CSDC Inc. 2004