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michelcolman
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Whenever you read about entangled particles, and how measuring one of them "immediately" changes the other, the problem of faster than light travel is usually dismissed with "o, but you can't use it to transmit information, so it doesn't contradict relativity".
However, I think there's a more fundamental problem with this: what's the meaning of the word "immediately" or "simultaneously"? After all, simultaneity is a very subjective thing. Two events that are simultaneous for one observer, will happen at very different times for someone else with a different frame of reference. In fact, there's no such thing as objective simultaneity for spatially separated events.
So, in which frame of reference are those waveform collapses "simultaneous"?
However, I think there's a more fundamental problem with this: what's the meaning of the word "immediately" or "simultaneously"? After all, simultaneity is a very subjective thing. Two events that are simultaneous for one observer, will happen at very different times for someone else with a different frame of reference. In fact, there's no such thing as objective simultaneity for spatially separated events.
So, in which frame of reference are those waveform collapses "simultaneous"?