LAUGHED OUT OF COURT

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This is deceptive because it implies control. Bob may indeed get an exact copy of Alice's original beam. But Alice cannot determine what goes into her beam, so no useful information can be transmitted. -|Tom|-

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This is deceptive because it implies control. Bob may indeed get an exact copy of Alice's original beam. But Alice cannot determine what goes into her beam, so no useful information can be transmitted. -|Tom|-


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I think the article also failed to mention that Alice has to call bob on the phone to supply him the proper adjustments to his entangled photon to complete the "teleportation". So any information that is sent is slower than the phone call made. Very misleading article.

Tom,

Thanks for your reply. If I understand your response it is like a one way message. If so it doesn't seem that it would take much to establish multiple parallel links connected via the quantum computer technology they are proposing to create news lines back and forth as lines are destroyed.

Does that sound feasible?

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No, we have no ability to control the contents of the message. So it is more like a random code that we can discover at some point, and a distant observer can then discover too. But because we could not influence the message before it was sent without destroying it, no useful information was sent.

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It does not sound feasible to me. However, I'm not up-to-date on the latest ideas in quantum computing. But I'm betting that there will be no long-distance FTL messages until someone figures out how to control gravitons. -|Tom|-

Tom,

Thanks. Makes sense. They saw a message but couldn't write it.

Tom,

I am certainly the last one to try to understand quantum phenomena but it has me wondering about a few things. This whole question of one photon "immediately" knowing what the other one is doing I find curious. If the MM already predicts particles that are doing extreme FTL speeds then why couldn't the photons simply be communicating using such particles? A sufficiently rapid communication will always be interpreted as "instantaneous".