Quantum entangled-photon Chinese satellite.

Zenaan Harkness zen at freedbms.net
Sat Aug 6 15:55:41 PDT 2016


On Sat, Aug 06, 2016 at 03:30:19PM -0600, Mirimir wrote:
> >From <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light#Quantum_mechanics>:
> 
> > Certain phenomena in quantum mechanics, such as quantum entanglement,
> > might give the superficial impression of allowing communication of
> > information faster than light. _According to the no-communication
> > theorem these phenomena do not allow true communication; they only
> > let two observers in different locations see the same system
> > simultaneously, without any way of controlling what either sees._
> > Wavefunction collapse can be viewed as an epiphenomenon of quantum
> > decoherence, which in turn is nothing more than an effect of the
> > underlying local time evolution of the wavefunction of a system
> > and all of its environment. Since the underlying behaviour
> > doesn't violate local causality or allow FTL it follows that
> > neither does the additional effect of wavefunction collapse,
> > whether real or apparent.

And of course storing entangled photonic pairs in separate gold photon
cages will blow that stupid -theory- out of the water.

Like duh!



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