Reply to post: Re: How fast does a force propagate?

'Quantum computer algorithms are linear algebra, probabilities. This is not something that we do a good job of teaching our kids'

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Re: How fast does a force propagate?

"Also photon pairs or electron/positron pairs communicate faster then light"

No they don't. Assuming you are taking about entangled pairs, there is no information transferred between the particles at the time of resolving the state of one. The only information that exists is encoded at the moment of entanglement, the entangled particles are then moved apart (at less then the speed of light).

It's tempting to view the moment at which one waveform is resolved as sending a message faster than light to the other pair particle to reveal the"hidden message" encoded in the entanglement, but that's not what happens. The information was always there and was transferred at less than light speed.

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