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

Quantum Physics 2010-11-16 v1

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.

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@article{arxiv.0707.2633,
  title  = {Winterberg's conjectured breaking of the superluminal quantum correlations over large distances},
  author = {Eleftherios Gkioulekas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.2633},
  year   = {2010}
}

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7 pages, submitted to Int. J. Theor. Phys