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Originally Posted by GMontag
We are talking about two different things here. You are talking about quantum tunnelling past potential energy barriers, I'm talking about quantum entanglement producing instantaneous communication. Quantum tunneling obviously can't be used for FTL travel. Particles can't tunnel outside of their light cone anyway. Quantum entanglement, however, does appear to allow instantaneous communication over any distance. How this is possible in light of relativity hasn't been fully worked out just yet.
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OK, it appears we are talking about two different things.
Quantum entanglement is indeed one of those manisfestations of "quantum wierdness" that we don't really understand. Perhaps it does provide slim chances for FTL communication; who knows? But not FTL travel, and that was the original contention of this argument.
Mr Mephisto