Usual disclaimers: I am not a scientist and my knowledge of quantum mechanics is very minimal.
However...
"Repeated experiments have verified that this works even when the measurements are performed more quickly than light could travel between the sites of measurement"
What interests me at this stage is not 'why' entanglement works, but rather how it can be used. The article indicates that repeated experiments have verified it appears to be a real process, where actions on one particle can influence another particle (seemingly) no matter how far away, so why can't we use it for communication? To use a simple example, if I encode data as movement in the 'sender' particle, and the movement can be monitored in the 'receiver' particle, then you can have a system for sending messages.
Seems to me the need to control the internal state of the particles to communicate may be unnecessary. Perhaps to explore further, can anyone here the types of measurable phenomena that have been seen to be mirrored in entangled particles (the ones you know of, anyway)? Would particle spin be one example? Thanks!
However... "Repeated experiments have verified that this works even when the measurements are performed more quickly than light could travel between the sites of measurement"
What interests me at this stage is not 'why' entanglement works, but rather how it can be used. The article indicates that repeated experiments have verified it appears to be a real process, where actions on one particle can influence another particle (seemingly) no matter how far away, so why can't we use it for communication? To use a simple example, if I encode data as movement in the 'sender' particle, and the movement can be monitored in the 'receiver' particle, then you can have a system for sending messages.
Seems to me the need to control the internal state of the particles to communicate may be unnecessary. Perhaps to explore further, can anyone here the types of measurable phenomena that have been seen to be mirrored in entangled particles (the ones you know of, anyway)? Would particle spin be one example? Thanks!