"Winterberg’s conjectured breaking of the superluminal quantum correlat" by Eleftherios Gkioulekas
 

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Article

Publication Date

5-2008

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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Original published version available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-007-9550-8

Publication Title

International Journal of Theoretical Physics

DOI

10.1007/s10773-007-9550-8

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