Can Quantum Nonlocality be the Consequence of Faster-Than-Light Interactions?

TL;DR

This paper explores whether quantum nonlocality can be explained by faster-than-light interactions, proposing a model that avoids causal paradoxes by breaking Lorentz symmetry, and examines its counterintuitive implications.

Contribution

It introduces a framework where EPR correlations are mediated by FTL interactions without causal paradoxes, challenging the traditional Lorentz invariance assumptions.

Findings

Lorentz symmetry is broken for EPR correlations.

Active and passive Lorentz transformations are no longer equivalent.

Counterintuitive consequences arise from the FTL interaction hypothesis.

Abstract

It has been advocated by Bell and Bohm that the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) correlations are mediated through faster-than-light (FTL) interactions. In a previous paper a way to avoid causal paradoxes derived from this FTL hypothesis (via the breakdown of Lorentz symmetry) has been suggested. Lorentz transformations would remain valid, but there would be no equivalence between active and passive Lorentz transformations in the case of EPR correlations. Some counterintuitive consequences of this assumption are briefly examined here.