Comment Re:This is what a normal person just read above. (Score 1) 487
We'll say that instead of using the states of the tangled pennies to try to transfer information, we'll just use the fact that we stopped them.
Sorry, this can't really be done (and, yes, if it were possible, it would provide a means for faster-than-light communication, once a link was established). If I stop one of the pennies "here", there's no way to know that immediately at the "remote" end. The point of the analogy is that when we stop the corresponding penny at the remote end, we can know whether the initial penny here was heads or tails. The only way we can let them know at the remote end that we stopped our penny here is through other means of slow, light-speed communication.
Sorry, this can't really be done (and, yes, if it were possible, it would provide a means for faster-than-light communication, once a link was established). If I stop one of the pennies "here", there's no way to know that immediately at the "remote" end. The point of the analogy is that when we stop the corresponding penny at the remote end, we can know whether the initial penny here was heads or tails. The only way we can let them know at the remote end that we stopped our penny here is through other means of slow, light-speed communication.
