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Think of it this way. We have a pair of gloves. By the nature of pairs of gloves one is right and one is left. We mix them randomly and put them both in closed
by boublepop 7y ago
Think of it this way. We have a pair of gloves. By the nature of pairs of gloves one is right and one is left. We mix them randomly and put them both in closed boxes. Then we classically ship one box at below speed of light to Mars. Now someone on mars if they open their box will “instantaneously” know at above speed of light correlation which glove was in our box back on earth. But no information was transmitted through the revealing itself, and in fact you would need a classical below speed of light bit stream to accompany the quantum glove boxes if you want to use it for communication.
In reality there’s some extra concepts to the quantum states because they act as though the selection of which glove is in which box doesn’t happen until we force the gloves into a definite state through opening the box. But that doesn’t change the nature of there being no information transfer.
You can do the same sort of above speed of light signaling fully classically. If you for instance consider a lighthouse with a single beam switching between two far away points. One location will know instantly the signal the other receives, but since you aren’t controlling the lighthouse moving back and forth you can’t transfer information through the signal.