Title

Winterberg's conjectured breaking of the superluminal quantum correlations over large distances

Authors

Authors

E. Gkioulekas

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Int. J. Theor. Phys.

Keywords

entanglement; EPR experiment; quantum correlations; HIDDEN-VARIABLE THEORIES; BELL INEQUALITIES; RELATIONAL INTERPRETATION; MECHANICAL DESCRIPTION; LORENTZ INVARIANCE; PHYSICAL REALITY; LOCAL; REALISM; WAVE-FUNCTION; PLANCK-SCALE; TURBULENCE; Physics, Multidisciplinary

Abstract

We elaborate further on a hypothesis by Winterberg that turbulent fluctuations of the zero point field may lead to a breakdown of the superluminal quantum correlations over very large distances. A phenomenological model that was proposed by Winterberg to estimate the transition scale of the conjectured breakdown, does not lead to a distance that is large enough to be agreeable with recent experiments. We consider, but rule out, the possibility of a steeper slope in the energy spectrum of the turbulent fluctuations, due to compressibility, as a possible mechanism that may lead to an increased lower-bound for the transition scale. Instead, we argue that Winterberg overestimated the intensity of the ZPF turbulent fluctuations. We calculate a very generous corrected lower bound for the transition distance which is consistent with current experiments.

Journal Title

International Journal of Theoretical Physics

Volume

47

Issue/Number

5

Publication Date

1-1-2008

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

1195

Last Page

1205

WOS Identifier

WOS:000254744000006

ISSN

0020-7748

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