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There is no law that says that information can not travel faster than light is there? The law is just a out mass/energy.

On top of that I believe faster than light transfer of information has already been experimentally shown to exist.



> There is no law that says that information can not travel faster than light is there?

Yes, there is. Information has to be carried by some form of mass/energy, so if mass/energy can't travel faster than light, neither can information.

> I believe faster than light transfer of information has already been experimentally shown to exist.

No, it hasn't. If you're thinking of the CERN neutrino experiments a couple of years ago, that turned out to be an equipment error.


Hmmm... shouldn't two linked quantum particles change their state in sync, no matter the distance?


This is a non-relativistic description. The correct relativistic description assigns quantum field operators to events in spacetime, and operators at spacelike separated events commute--i.e., they give the same results regardless of which order they occur in. So there is no physical fact of the matter about the order in which the particles "change state".


There was this[0] relevant post on HN a handful of days ago. [0] http://strilanc.com/quantum/2014/05/03/Storing-Bandwidth-wit...



It's worth noting that the full explanation given here assumes that the many-worlds interpretation is correct, which not all physicists would agree with. But the "no-communication theorem" is true independently of which interpretation of QM you adopt.


You can't transport information through quantum entanglement.




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