From: juan <juan.g71@gmail.com>
   On Thu, 4 Aug 2016 16:49:12 +0000 (UTC)
   jim bell <[1]jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:
   >> Apparently, that is true.   The tantalizing thing is that SOMETHING
   >> APPEARS   (information, of some nature) to be transferred between
   one
   >> particle and another, distant one, and yet there seems to be no way
   >> to use that transfer to actually transmit useful FTL
    >  Which sounds rather absurd no?
   Certainly that sounds absurd!   It IS absurd!  Which explains a lot of
   the fascination
   has for entangled photons and related phenomena.  Einstein never liked
   the
   quantum-mechanics idea, famously declaring "God does not play dice with
   the
   universe".     Unfortunately for Einstein, dice are actually played.
   In fact, Einstein's EPR Paradox (Einstein, Podolski, Rosen) was
   invented by
   Einstein himself in an attempt to prove that quantum mechanics could
   not
   be a complete statement of the problem.
   [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_paradox
   This principle said that IF quantum mechanics
   were a complete statement of the problem, then something seemingly
   impossible [fill in the blank with FTL information travel] would occur.
    Einstein was
   quite convinced that nothing (including no information) could travel
   faster than
   'c'.  Amazingly, it appears that nature ("God", for the religious among
   you) has acted
   simultaneously to protect the quantum mechanics theory, but ALSO to
   protect
   Einstein's belief that nothing could travel faster than 'c'.   If
   anybody should discover
   a method to use entangled photons to effectively transmit data FTL (and
   thus,
   presumably at infinite speed) that person would surely deserve a Nobel
   Prize in
   Physics.
    >Either this is ordinary EM
    > phenomena that propagate at the so called speed of light, or
    > it is something else which could propagate at 'faster than
    > light' speed.
   It's at least 10,000 times 'c' the speed of light in a vacuum,
   according to
   experiments involving fiber optics.  It might be essentially infinite.
     >  If 'something' is moving at faster than light speed, then some
     > information must be being transmitted. If no information is
   >    being transmitted, then by definition, there's no way to measure
     >  speed and the claim makes no sense.
   Well, that's the problem.  Knowing that SOMETHING is being transmitted,
   and actually
   USING that method to transmit useful information, are (quite strangely)
   two different
   things.  That, also is the amazing implications of entangled photons.
                  Jim Bell

References

   1. mailto:jdb10987@yahoo.com
   2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_paradox