Tuning up for Teleportation

Once again, I have to question the use of the word "instantaneously".

I thought the jury was still out on whether the effect of entanglement is limited to the speed of light. In fact, I could have sworn that the last time I walked past the jury deliberation room I overheard several voices saying "Yes it is".

See my previous posts on CR4 regarding quantum state teleportation. There appears to be a loophole when working at the quantum level that does indeed allow instantaneous transmission (due to a particle being able to have two different states simultaneously, hence you don't have a particle movement such as a flow of electrons (ie- classic current flow theory) which IS limited by the speed of light and the laws of classical physics). It may take another 6 years before a viable data transmission product can actually be produced outside of a lab thou.

Thanks for the info. I'll try to read your previous posts later.

Although from a light skimming on the net, I've seen an argument that quantum communication is indeed instantaneous but it doesn't violate general relativity because it still requires a classical information channel on each end.

This utterly befuddles my tiny mind. Am I to understand that simply because I and my companion 20,000 light years away both utilize non-quantum means (for lack of a better term) to physically encode and decode information into / out our respective quantum-paired particles, that the instaneous skipping-over of the 20,000 years between us doesn't violate GR?

If true, I'm fine with that - I guess. Although my overactive imagination wants to think that by way of balance it should somehow take 20,000 years for the information to pass from my particle to me.

Beam me up Scotty !