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Comment by gus_massa

I really don't understand this sentence:

> So Anne takes her bit, A, and puts it through her handy entanglement-decoding machine, which spits out an answer: either B or C.

(Note: I have a Ph.D. in Math and half a major in Physics that include a few quantum mechanics curses (for example, with the Sakurai book))

What is a entanglement-decoding machine? You cant use entanglement to send information. Just repeat after me: You cant use entanglement to send information. This is one of the most common misunderstandings about entanglement.

When you make the measurement and get the collapse, you only get a random value (with a weighted probability). It's not possible to use that to get information about B or C.

parent gus_massa 11 years ago

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