• BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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    12 days ago

    I’m familiar with quantum entanglement. It doesn’t work because you have no way of affecting which state you’ll measure, and thus what state the other particle will be in.

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          12 days ago

          That’s not the part you were trying to say couldn’t be done. ;) You were trying to argue that quantum entanglement couldn’t be used to communicate, clearly it can.

          The FTL bit is the science fiction premise of the thread. ;)

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            12 days ago

            That is indeed that bit I was saying couldn’t be done. Entanglement alone can’t be used to communicate; a signal has to be sent conventionally over the distance.

            The FTL bit is physically impossible, so it’s not really “achievable in a reasonable time-frame”