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HoosierHoops12/23/2009 4:18:00 am PST

re: #76 srjh

Unfortunately not.

The thing is, it’s not quite right to say that “when one changes spin the other also changes despite distance and time”…

It’s more that both are uncertain until you measure one, and in doing so you provide a certainty to both. You can’t actually communicate instantaneously, but you can get together later and check that your results are more correlated than they would otherwise be.

It’s pretty complicated, but it is very interesting when you start to get into it.

Well crap..There goes my idea of a quantum computer