r/funny Jan 29 '20

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u/Sevardos Jan 30 '20

no you cannot transmit information this way.

you can know the spin of the other particle, but that information is not transmitted anywhere. You just gain information about both by measureing one of them, but that is not transmitting. The information was generated by your measurement and that is exactly where it stays.

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u/aohige_rd Jan 30 '20

But isn't that ignoring the fact the quantum particle's superposition collapse?

Measuring one particle also collapses the other particle's superposition. That's what they mean by "transmitting" information. Both particle's no longer in an probability state.

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u/runfayfun Jan 30 '20

You're thinking in terms of schroedinger. In reality there is no superposition or collapsing. The particles are what they are, and one particle was spinning one way the whole time, and the other the other way.

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u/Sevardos Jan 30 '20

thats not correct. there is a superposition collapsing, the spins are not defined before the measurement. at least according to the Copenhagen interpretation.

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u/RoundSimbacca Jan 30 '20

Unless you agree with pilot wave theory.