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Old June 12th 07, 03:34 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Cecil Moore[_2_] Cecil Moore[_2_] is offline
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John, N9JG wrote:
1. What do you mean when you state that entangled particles have
"communications"?
2. Entangled particles can not be used to send _information_ at a speed
greater than the speed of light.


From:
http://www.socialtext.net/wired-mag/...es_communicate

--Quote: How do entangled particles communicate?
One of the zanier notions in the plenty zany world of quantum
mechanics is that a pair of subatomic particles can sometimes
become “entangled.” This means the fate of one instantly affects
the other, no matter how far apart they are. It’s such a bizarre
phenomenon that Einstein dissed the idea in the 1930s as “spooky
action at a distance,” saying it showed that the developing model
of the atomic world needed rethinking.

But it turns out that the universe is spooky after all. In 1997,
scientists separated a pair of entangled photons by shooting
them through fiber-optic cables to two villages 6 miles apart.
Tipping one into a particular quantum state forced the other
into the opposite state less than five-trillionths of a second
later, or *nearly 7 million times faster than light* could travel
between the two. Of course, according to relativity, nothing
travels faster than the speed of light - not even information
between particles.

Even the best theories to explain how entanglement gets around
this problem seem preposterous. One, for example, speculates
that signals are shot back through time. Ultimately, the answer
is bound to be unnerving: According to a famous doctrine called
Bell’s Inequality, for entanglement to square with relativity,
either we have no free will or reality is an illusion. Some choice.
--end quote
73, Cecil, w5dxp.com