Researchers have sent a cryptographic key 144km (~90 miles) using spooky interaction between entangled quantum particles. This could enable instantaneous communications across the vastness of space.
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007
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quantum entanglement does not imply faster than light communication, despite much science fiction indicating otherwise.
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=612
True it may not be faster than light (I am not a physicists), but it is still conceptually iinstantaneous and could be really usefull.
No it isn't.
Yes it is. (couldn't resist.) No it isn't instantaneous or really useful?
Look if I have two entanglemented particles and I send one off with my buddy 12 parsecs away and I send a red light past it, as your article suggests, he will receive the red light signal 12 parsecs away, immediately. How is that not instaneous and useful?
Maybe I am missing something.
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