[#3Fan]

How do you do this? What do you do to your stored photon to make the already-sent and remotely-detected photon convey the bit you wish to send? "Ordinary" entangled photons can't be used to send information. It's true that you can measure yours and therefore instantly know what measurement the remote station will obtain with theirs, even if they're a light year away, but you can't force it to become a certain bit, thereby forcing the remote bit to also become a known bit.

From what I understood an experiment was carried out in Germany (or France?) where a photon was split and and it's entangled pair was sent down two fiber-optic lines 2 miles apart at the ends of the city. By adjusting the sensor at one end, they affected the readings at the other faster than the speed of light could get through the city. So it seems that the sensor could "see" what was happening at the other sensor instantaneously. I wish I still had that article handy because I saw the significance of it as it relates to this. It was in Discover magazine two or three years ago and I would have to really go digging to find it.

[coloradan]

I would have to see the article, but I doubt they did what you think they did. You can alter what property of a photon you are trying to measure in the fly, but no matter what you do actually measure, you then know what the other photon will give when this same property is measured. But you didn't choose what your photon will yield, so you can't send this information FTL to the receiver of the other photon.