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The second photon that the first's state is being teleported to is constructed by performing certain operations on it and which ones are performed are determine
by tgb 10y ago
The second photon that the first's state is being teleported to is constructed by performing certain operations on it and which ones are performed are determined by the two classical bits that are measured from the first photon (hence destroying the firsts's state). So from the first photon being destroyed to the second gaining its state, there must be a speed of light delay as those two classical bits are transmitted.
- jdmichal 10y ago> So from the first photon being destroyed to the second gaining its state, there must be a speed of light delay as those two classical bits are transmitted. This is the part where you are potentially wrong. Entanglement is about correlation. In order to derive the original message, you need the local entangled state, along with data from the remote actor. You could then correlate this information to derive the original remote entangled state -- ie, some message. Of course, this is now useless to you, as they could have simply sent the original message and saved you the correlation step. However, I don't know of any reason that the local quantum state could not be measured prior to the arrival of the data from the remote actor. The math says that the measurable effect should happen instantaneously. But that data alone is not sufficient to derive a message.