THE SANNER MODEL - TOWARD A QUANTUM AETHER DYNAMICS - Analog Hawking radiation, entropy, and the emerging quantum vacuum

The Sanner Model has been presented as a classical, rigid-space aether framework that reproduces the classical tests of general relativity without curved spacetime or gravitational force. This paper extends the model into the quantum domain. Drawing on analogue gravity—pioneered by Unruh (1981)—I show that the Sanner aether, treated as a quantum fluid, naturally gives rise to the key quantum phenomena predicted by semi-classical general relativity: Hawking radiation, black ball entropy, and emergent quantum fields. Linearizing the Sanner field equation yields a wave equation for phonons, which experience a thermal spectrum at the aether horizon, where the flow speed exceeds c in the xyz frame. The aether acceleration gradient at the horizon yields the Unruh temperature, identical to Hawking's result. A postulated Planck-scale quantum microstructure yields the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy-area law. The framework is situated within superfluid vacuum theory, with the Standard Model fields emerging as low-energy excitations of the quantum aether and Lorentz violation addressed via the Standard Model Extension. The Sanner Model, in its quantum extension, thus matches the explanatory power of GR plus QFT in the semi-classical regime, while offering a simpler ontology: rigid space, a flowing quantum aether, and the normal force as the only real force.Version 4.0 has clearer definitions and language according to the model.