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To: Boogieman
Observing a particle changes its state, due to the observer effect.

Way back in the 'old days' of RS-232 serial communications, they had this same problem.

When a 'sender' was at a different baud rate than the 'receiver' all you got was a bunch of useless bits.

Then they standardized the communications formats so everyone could use fixed baud rates.

But there was still a problem: The format of the communications itself. So they came up with 'parity' bits, 'check' bits, 'start' and 'stop' bits that would frame the 'data' bits to form bytes that actually contained the information to decode into an 'A' or 'H' or a '1' or a '5'.

At this stage, the scientists need to develop a system similar to this that can decode the seeming randomness of 'entangled' bits.................

62 posted on 12/04/2013 10:03:46 AM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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To: Red Badger

“At this stage, the scientists need to develop a system similar to this that can decode the seeming randomness of ‘entangled’ bits.................”

They have already devised such a system, but you are going to be disappointed by it. It involves sending the “check” bit type elements through subluminal communication, and the entangled message is unreadable until that arrives.


72 posted on 12/04/2013 11:31:19 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Red Badger
But there was still a problem: The format of the communications itself. So they came up with 'parity' bits, 'check' bits, 'start' and 'stop' bits that would frame the 'data' bits to form bytes that actually contained the information to decode into an 'A' or 'H' or a '1' or a '5'.

They also determined that no matter what you did, when you transmit information from one place to another, you will see 'random' errors, which is the 'why' of the parity and check bits. There was a story about this in the book "Chaos" by James Gleick. It was determined that it a fundamental property of the universe, that when information is transmitted and received, something is always lost, hence the eventual need for CRC checks ans whatnot.

74 posted on 12/04/2013 11:49:58 AM PST by zeugma (Is it evil of me to teach my bird to say "here kitty, kitty"?)
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