Sometimes when I’m in the shower, things occur to me. For example:
1. Suppose you had four particles that had been entangled with each other.
2. Suppose you separated those into two groups of two and put each group in a “container.”
3. The function of this container is to light up a red light when the entanglement of the particles is broken.
4. You separate the two containers at great distance, and you disentangle the particles in Box A at a particular time.
5. Can you use that to send information faster than light?
I’m sure there’s some reason you couldn’t, and I’m going a bit far out on a limb with what I know about entanglement.
For example, I have no idea if the entanglement of the particles in Box A is dependent on the entanglement of the other two in Box B (and the internet did present any ready answers about scenarios outside the two-body, but I can’t imagine the entanglement of the whole system not being important) but if it is I don’t see how this wouldn’t work.
When I was thinking about this, I figured you couldn’t do this with just two particles because the data given is “random” and you needed an internal basis of comparison in each box to tell if the particles as a whole are no longer entangled.
Which led me to the conclusion that:
A. If this did work, you would have “consumable bits” for machines that transferred information faster than light because every bit sent would permanently destroy the link between the four particles.
I was only interested in this as it pertained to a story idea that I had, as I long ago decided I would rather be a writer than a physicist, but can anyone tell me why I’m wrong? This is rather trivial so I can’t imagine no one has thought of it before.
Any secret CERN geniuses out there?
PS My beard is getting stronger every day.
Also, I’m going to be done with a story in the next day or so called “All the Lovely Wicked Words.”
