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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5893326" data-attributes="member: 8835">that is the nit-pickety part.  assuming my summary of the effect is close enough to true, I see a viewpoint that says we can pass data from Earth to Alpha Centauri faster than light.  But I also see a view point that says the data itself, did not travel any distance because the quantum entanglement effect means the 2 objects are effectively the same object.I have no clue what the official view is.how easy it is to make a quantum entangled pair?how easy it it to induce and detect a response in the pair?If our tech level is sufficient, we can create Quantum Repeaters, a pair of devices with an RJ45 connector on either end that can bridge two locations across any distance.  We could basically send ethernet traffic across the ocean to India, without running undesea cables or satellites.  (some of you may have no idea how much of a PITA it is to do business over internet with Asia, the speeds are terrible).We could install one in space probes and get much faster communication with probes that are far away (like Mars and beyond).If transfer of signal from A to B is instaneous (not affected by distance), aside from the usual setup/teardown to tickle node A and detect in node B which technically has a time cost (like any data protocol does).  If we put Node B on another star, technically, we're passing data faster than light (basically, we'd be running at a speed equal to the distance).I doubt our ability to tickle and detect on a quantumly entangled pair would be any faster than our network speed technologies (gigabit ethernet, wifi under 802.11n or whatever).  But that's due to the setup/teardown to get the data into the pair.  The real bonus comes if the transfer within the pair has zero latency.  At that point, the greater the distance, the greater the pay-off/efficiency.</blockquote>

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