[aruanan]

You do know that IF you see red, the other person will also see red, but you have no way of setting up any kind of messaging system because you cannot pick what you will see.

I was referring also to the French experiments using, I believe, tunneling photons that were measured at superluminal speeds. They transmitted classical music by this means. If someone were able to agree ahead of time that Bach meant go and Mozart meant stop, and then used this means and these music examples to tell another, who also knew the code, what to do, go or stop, then communication would have occurred by superluminal means.

[djf]

If this is a quantum phenomenon, my bet would be that some of the particles might travel faster than light, while others do not, and once again, we have no way of chosing which ones do or don’t.

Don’t get me wrong, the results are very intriguing, that’s part of the reason this is causing such a stir.

And note that my explanation of things is my understanding of what “classical quantum mechanics” (who knew there even WAS such a thing!) says about the issue and why faster than light communication was impossible. Not FTL travel, just FTL communication or signaling. QM is statistical in nature.
Myself, I am open to the possibilities.