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Is this entanglement though time experiment possible?

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2 points by astannard 3 years ago · 3 comments

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astannardOP 3 years ago

If you entangle two particles at the quantum level and then take particle 1 on a trip around the world. Due to particle 1 traveling closer to the speed of light that particle two it has traveled through time slower than particle 2. Now if the state of particle 2 is changed will that be reflected in particle 1 instantly or after a fraction of a millisecond. If a time difference is encountered what would happen if you change the state of particle 1 would particle 2 already have been change a fraction before or not ?

  • jfengel 3 years ago

    That's not how entanglement works. Operations on particle 2 are not reflected in particle 1 -- not instantaneously, not at the speed of light, nor at any other rate.

    This is a very basic result called the No Communication Theorem. It's not in competition with quantum mechanics; it's a fundamental part of it.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem

    The verification of that fact is what this year's Nobel Prize in physics is about.

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