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In reply to the discussion: Quantum Entanglement, Dark Counts, Coincidence Detection [View all]mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)The explanations for why entanglement can't be for communication rely on the fact that when you measure a property, you get a random value. When someone else measured their particle's property (usually Bob), they get the compliment of your random value. Nick Herbert had a scheme to get around it, but that required being able to clone a quantum particle so different properties could be measured. It resulted in the no cloning theorem.
However, this process relies on measuring the superposition state of many particles. That is a fundamentally different experiment, and it seems very logical to me that it would work. If it doesn't work, then something else has to break. It would be similar to being able to measure which slit a each photon went through in a double-slit experiment, yet still getting the interference pattern. Or it would be similar to measuring a particle's position and momentum with arbitrary precision.
So one way or another, an interesting result is coming out of this thing.