[ExI] quantum entanglement

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Mon Jan 11 21:07:03 UTC 2010


On 1/11/2010 2:56 PM, John Clark wrote:

> quantum entanglement can't transmit information, it can change things at
> a distance but you need more than that to send a message, you also need
> a standard to measure that change against, and that is where
> entanglement falls short.

Isn't the message problem that you can't *force* a predictable change 
upon part of an entangled system? If A's particle spin is up, then B's 
is down, okay, you know that--but A can't *make* her particle go spin up 
when she wants it to without breaking the entanglement. No?

Damien Broderick



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