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I split this off a separate thread in response to a post of @Nugatory .
The matter was about the (im)possibility of transfering information using entanglement.
This is a basic thread, so I keep it simple: There are two particles/detectors, A and B. The particles are in the singlet state.
Could we claim that, should we have chosen a different detector angle for A, measurement B would have had the same outcome?
If we can't claim that, can we even rule out causation, and in that context, information transfer?
Of course any change in A doesn't affect the randomness of the outcomes of B. So, if the random pattern in B is changed in a different random pattern by changing something in A, there is no information transfer. There is an effect however (in this supposition).
My train of thought went like this: suppose a single pair in singlet state does not facilitate information transfer. However, a change in angle of A could lead to a different result in B. Then would it be conceivable that an ensemble of pairs (in time of space) would lead to a whole pattern of deviations in B as an effect of changes in the angle of detector A? I'm thinking for instance that the pattern A shows correlates with the pattern B shows (which is manifest in singlet ensembles). There is, as it were, information about a relative relation.
It may be a long shot and I'm won't be too surprised if I overlook something.
The matter was about the (im)possibility of transfering information using entanglement.
This is a basic thread, so I keep it simple: There are two particles/detectors, A and B. The particles are in the singlet state.
My question:Nugatory said:No. It does prove that measurements on an entangled system do not transmit information at any speed, whether faster than light or not.
Could we claim that, should we have chosen a different detector angle for A, measurement B would have had the same outcome?
If we can't claim that, can we even rule out causation, and in that context, information transfer?
Of course any change in A doesn't affect the randomness of the outcomes of B. So, if the random pattern in B is changed in a different random pattern by changing something in A, there is no information transfer. There is an effect however (in this supposition).
My train of thought went like this: suppose a single pair in singlet state does not facilitate information transfer. However, a change in angle of A could lead to a different result in B. Then would it be conceivable that an ensemble of pairs (in time of space) would lead to a whole pattern of deviations in B as an effect of changes in the angle of detector A? I'm thinking for instance that the pattern A shows correlates with the pattern B shows (which is manifest in singlet ensembles). There is, as it were, information about a relative relation.
It may be a long shot and I'm won't be too surprised if I overlook something.
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