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Light-Speed Spaceships Would Have Trouble Phoning Home (www.iflscience.com)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Quantum entanglement is like this - you have two sealed envelopes. In one envelope the letter A is written on a sheet of paper and the other has a sheet of paper with B written on it. No one knows who has which envelope until it is opened. All opening the envelope does is let you know what is written on the piece of paper the other person has. It transfers no data between the two points as the data was already set.