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My (relatively uninformed) understanding was that you couldn't transfer information via quantum entanglement. Is that not correct?


Moreover you can’t transfer information faster than the speed of light.

As for QE: I first I need to send you a particle at sunlight speeds. Then I measure my particle and get the value N, which means I immediately know that your particle must be -N. Great for key exchange: I can send you let’s say 2048 of these particles and then we instantly know each other’s keys/have a shared key, while also knowing if the transmission has been tempered with in transit. But I can’t send you a message I choose.


This is not my field, but it seem if you can spin 1 particle in a known direction and the entangled "partner" particle spins the exact opposite direction, then why not? Basically everything would just be reversed with a 1 being a 0 and a 0 being a 1 on the receiving end. I know both the Chinese and American governments are working on quantum entanglement as a communication mechanism and the Chinese have had some success between satellites. Basically a real time wireless internet.

Edit: better link for Chinese experiments from Science Mag.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/quantum-internet-clo...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinas-experiment-quantum-com...

https://newatlas.com/telecommunications/us-government-bluepr...


As others have said, the fundamental problem is that all you can deduce is that whatever the spin of your particle is, the other particle has the opposite spin. You cannot determine the spin of your particle in order to affect the spin of the other particle.


Because you don’t get to choose which way the particle spins when creating an entangled pair.




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