• VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world
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      Nope. Quantum entanglement is when two particles are made to have the same states. Measuring one tells you about the other one in much the same way you can tell what someone you’ve never met before looks like if you’ve seen their identical twin. Also, much like how punching one twin in the face and breaking their nose has no effect on the other twin fifty miles away, doing something to one half of an entangled pair does nothing to the other. In fact, because they’re no longer identical, the particles aren’t considered to be entangled anymore.

      Entanglement can be used for encryption, but it can’t be used to transmit data.

    • wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Nope!

      Information can only travel at the speed of light.

      During my undergraduate CERN did this experiment (a decade ago now).

      And they had the shocking result of the second wave function collapsed faster than c.

      That was until a clock was found to be loosley connected and caused a timing error, that would account for the slower than c speed.

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        Information can only travel at the speed of light.

        I like the general term being used nowadays instead of “the speed of light” - the speed of causality; which is nice because it fits neatly into E=mc2.