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- Can two parties on remote planets instantly use same random number generator with entangled particles?
Say there is a lottery on Earth with 16 bit numbers (from 1 to 65535), i.e. 65535 lottery tickets are sold. Now, we take 16 pairs of entangled particles, 1st particle of each pair is kept on Earth, 2nd particle sent to Mars. The winning number is randomly chosen (on Earth) by checking the spin of each of the 16 particles and combining those zeros and ones into a number. Suppose the lottery draw takes place on Earth at 00:00 GMT. Then if astronauts on Mars check their particles at 00:01 Earth GMT time, they will know the lottery winning number just 1 second after the lottery was drawn, whilst the light travels from Earth to Mars say 20 minutes. Where is the mistake here?