Does Quantum Entanglement Allow for Faster Than Light Communication

Quantum entanglement allows particles to affect one another faster than the speed of light. So does this mean we could one day build a device to exploit this and enable superluminal communication? A popular trope in sci-fi for sure, but today let's look at the science.

Presented by Prof David Kipping (Columbia). Special thanks to Prof. Ehud Altman (Berkeley), Prof Tim Byrnes (NYU) & Prof. Raquel Queiroz (Columbia) for fact checking our script.

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::Music::
► Chris Zabriskie - Cylinder Five (2:09)
► Falls - Life in Binary (5:09)
► Falls - Ripley (10:05)
► Chris Zabriskie - Cylinder Four (13:24)
► Chris Zabriskie - The Sun Is Scheduled To Come Out Again Tomorrow (22:20)
► Indive - Trace Correction (28:11)

::Film/TV clips used::
► Moonfall (Lionsgate)
► Passengers (Sony Pictures Releasing)
► Mankind: The Story of All of Us (History Channel)
► Foundation (Apple Inc.)
► Interstellar (Paramount Pictures)
► Contact (Warner Bros.)
► Arrival (Paramount Pictures)
► Back to the Future (Universal Pictures)
► Avatar (20th Century Fox)
► Mass Effect 2 (Bioware)
► The Matrix (Warner Bros.)
► Star Trek: The Next Generation (Paramount Television)
► Star Wars: the Last Jedi (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
► Genius (National Geographic)
► Star Trek (Paramount Television)
► Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Paramount Pictures)

::Chapters::
00:00 The FTL Dream
02:10 Relativistic FTL?
03:41 Quantum FTL?
06:27 Quantum 101
09:01 FTL Action at Distance
10:33 How to Exploit?
12:23 Idea 1: Repeat Measurements
14:16 Idea 2: Double Slits
18:04 Idea 3: XY Switching
22:20 Where From Here?
28:11 Outro & Credits

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