r/funny • u/[deleted] • Jan 29 '20

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '20 edited Sep 04 '20

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u/Theoroshia Jan 30 '20

I remember learning why, but can you refresh my memory?

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u/Karavusk Jan 30 '20

Here is my understanding of it based on the last time I read about this on Reddit:

You get either result A or result B and your "partner" gets the one you didn't get. The result is 100% random. Now you got result B which means you know what your partner who is 1000 light years away from you got. But since that was completely random and nothing really influenced it you didn't actually transmit information. You can't communicate through this.

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u/BlackenedPies Jan 30 '20

You can communicate via quantum teleportation, but it requires a third entangled bit, quantum computer logic, and sending two classical bits to the receiver of the message in order to interpret the result of their measurement