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No information is transmitted. It's like this with every article about entanglement. If I have a red chip and a black chip and I mail one to you and one to you
by davidmathers 18y ago
No information is transmitted. It's like this with every article about entanglement.
If I have a red chip and a black chip and I mail one to you and one to your friend in New York then as soon you open your envelope and see a red chip the information "the envelope in New York contains a black chip" will be "teleported" from New York to your brain. Or not.
- davidmathers 18y agoHere's a great interview I linked to last time there was an entanglement article on HN: http://www.signandsight.com/features/614.html http://www.signandsight.com/features/614.html And Eliezer Yudkowsky linked to his own explanation: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/05/spooky-action-a.html http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/05/spooky-action-a.html The HN item was: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=276058 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=276058
- captainobvious 18y agoUhh doesn't Eliezer Yudkowsky's account explicitly discount the envelope explanation?
- davidmathers 18y agoThat was a metaphor not an explanation. What's actually happening is pretty much incomprehensible, but is just as unrelated to the transmission of information as my metaphor.
- Eliezer 18y agoWhat gets "teleported" is indexical information, information about which Everett branch "you" happen to be in. One might say that you are in the envelope - different versions of you in different envelopes. It may sound odd, but it makes a whole lot of completely unphysical behavior in the "collapse" "theory" evaporate in a puff of smoke.