Light-Speed Spaceships Would Have Trouble Communicating, Spelling Bad News For Interstellar Travel
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Sci-fi might have spoiled us with how communication would work in space.

Subspace is the answer of course!

  • Jamie@jamie.moeEnglish
    41·
    11 months ago

    They’re probably referring to quantum entanglement, which affects the entangled particles instantly.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      7·
      11 months ago

      Yeah but you can’t interfere with quantum entangled particles, if you do you break the entanglement. So it isn’t usable as a method of communication.

      • intensely_humanEnglish
        21·
        11 months ago

        It isn’t usable as a method of communication by any means we’re aware of.

    • anotherandrew@lemmy.mixdown.caEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      Something I’ve not been asked to get through my head about QE: If observing the entangled particle destroys the entanglement, doesn’t that mean we’d need “containers” of entangled particles to send a bunch of information?

      • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nzEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        You can’t send information with entangled particles. You just learn the state of the other particle by inference when you observe the first particle.