It was the expected result, and it’s supposedly further evidence against a transmission mechanism being behind quantum entanglement (it would have to be THAT much faster than the speed of light). However, I personally do not understand why >10,000c is so much more significant than >1c… i.e. how this ‘rules’ out physical theories with faster-than-light carriers anymore than earlier results. While I’m very much a non-believer in such theories… it seems pretty subjective.

Entanglement remains a mystery with the New Scientist-y hype and scifi stripped away.

any comments?

Isn’t that a metaphysical conundrum attacked by Conway et al in the (revised) “Free Will” theorem, recently revisited in arXiv?

Then compress it as much as you can and carry out around. If you can compress the string without breaking it, then you can always get the data back – that’s valid data storage.

Or better, if you don’t like carrying around string, carry a small device that throws a small projectile some distance – the distance representing the encoded value.

Also: Can someone explain how an Einstein block universe – completely deterministic insofar as I know is compatible with quantum indeterminism? The one implies completely static world lines; the other something that is ‘free’ in some sort of supertime. But if the latter case is true, doesn’t that add an extra ingredient, a ‘preferred’ present? Maybe my model is not accurate. I think of the universe in this sense as a circuit, with times arrow given by the direction of inputs and outputs. In the Block universe, the circuits are immutable, as are the initial inputs. The qm model, and specifically, the casual consistency model proposed by Deutsch seems to say that the circuitry as well as the inputs are mutable. Have I got something wrong?