A fluid vacuum provides a productive framework for the electron, photon and forces giving 23 exact numerical predictions

Quantum Mechanics provides suggestions that the vacuum is fluidic, a basis widely used in everyday calculations by physicists in some fields. Given that condition, it is found that a fluid provides natural particles in the form of vortices, linked and leapfrogging and of other varieties. It is found that they account for the electron and photon extremely well with over 70 predictions of various types replicating the values and behaviours which are expected. For example a leapfrogging vortex provides a model which produces charge, the fine structure constant, the first Schwinger term and the correct magnetic moment for the electron largely with new derivations using vortex ring formulae.Gravity comes out exactly simply through providing a mechanical basis for Puthoff’s model and an equivalent for Coulomb’s law is found through the attraction and repulsion proposed by the acoustic formula first found by Bjerknes. The model also contains strong evidence for the fluidic basis of the vacuum through looking at the universality of Planck’s constant.