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Comments on the Quantum Vacuum and the Light Acceleration

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2007-05-23 v1 Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The recent observations on the far quasars absorption lines spectra and comparison of these lines with laboratory ones provide a framework for explantation of these observations by considering a varying fine structure constant, over the cosmological time-scale. Also, there seems to be an anomalous acceleration in the Pioneer spacecraft 10/11 about 1010m/s2 10^{-10} {\rm m}/{\rm s^2}. These matters lead Ranada to study the quantum vacuum to explain these problems by introducing a phenomenological model for the variation of α\alpha. In this manuscript we want to show that this model is not a quantum model; it is a classical model that is only in accordance with mentioned observations by adjusting some parameters and is not based on a fundamental physical intuition.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0409113,
  title  = {Comments on the Quantum Vacuum and the Light Acceleration},
  author = {Nosratollah Jafari and Ahmad Shariati},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0409113},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages

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