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by cellular 2108 days ago
The way you described it, it seems like it could relay information: If you see an odd value, meet me at Disney world. If you see an even value, meet me at the grand canyon. This way, our persuer won't know where we will meet.
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Well, it relays information in the same way that each of you using a random number generator pre-initialized with the same seed relays information. It doesn't involve faster-than-light communication, is the point. Entanglement differs from classical RNGs in that there is no shared seed; no local hidden variable, as it's called. The measurements are just... correlated. If you're interested in a deep dive on entanglement I wrote a post about it: https://ahelwer.ca/post/2018-12-07-chsh/
This is hard to fully understand. So you can't choose in any way which state it will collapse to during measurement? If that was possible, it would mean FTL communication I guess.