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   Jaimie Vandenbergh to sungjunnoh0802@gmail.com   
   Re: FTL communications.   
   03 Nov 16 01:59:11   
   
   From: jaimie@sometimes.sessile.org   
      
   On Tue, 1 Nov 2016 04:51:45 -0700 (PDT), 0something0   
    wrote:   
      
   >wait, I must be misunderstanding something. If the transmitter had observed   
   them without forcing it to have a certain state,   
      
   You can't, because observation collapses the state.   
      
   >then won't the entangled particle at the other end have the same state as the   
   transmitter end?   
      
   Yep.   
      
   >And the receiving end would know when it collapsed since it is now in a state   
   a definite state, not in a state of superposition?   
      
   The receiving end won't know until it observes the state, which would   
   also collapse it from their end.   
      
   So no, this isn't a communication method because the state can't be   
   observed at either end without collapsing it, and they won't know if it   
   was already collapsed by the far end.   
      
   	Cheers - Jaimie   
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