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Suppose such very early organisms had lived at quantum scale, or across the quantum / classical divide. At around the scale of a virus. And suppose their repli
by lovemenot 6y ago
Suppose such very early organisms had lived at quantum scale, or across the quantum / classical divide. At around the scale of a virus.
And suppose their replication had entailed production of entangled particles.
Without need for fast travel those particles would now exist everywhere in the universe. Having been carried here by expansion / inflation.
Many of those remnant particles / organisms would still be entangled, having never encountered another particle to cause their collapse.
This allows real-time (unconstrained by FTL) communication with arbitrary places in the universe.
We would communicate with this system using Earth-originated organisms at similar scale, collapsing those early entangled particles and watching the effect on our viruses' e.g. their spin.
- andrewflnr 6y agoEntanglement definitely does not allow FTL communication. IIUC the "wave function collapse" or whatever[0] does happen instantaneously, but you can't get any actual information through it without sending conventional signals as well. [0] I grow ever more convinced that the Copenhagen interpretation is nonsense, but it's the easiest language to acknowledge the weirdness of spooky action at a distance.