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Entangled light travels faster than the speed of light

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 27 August, 2008 to the comment subset

Apparently “entangled light” was found to be travelling 10,000 times faster than the speed of light, the ultimate speed limit in the universe, in a recent Swiss experiment:

The idea in the new experiment is that the photons in each entangled pair are hitting the distant detectors simultaneously, so there’s no time for them to exchange a signal. By comparing results from the two detectors, the researchers determined whether the photons were entangled or not, using a test known as Bell’s inequalities. The photons were indeed entangled, the group reports in Nature. But in reality, no experiment is perfect, so what they end up with is a lower limit on how fast the entanglement could be traveling: 10,000 times the speed of light.

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