[#3Fan]

Suppose there's a starbase a light year away, and you are using your method to communicate with them, sending entangled photons to them in the manner you describe. You must send them a one bit message in one minute, that they will instantaneously receive. In each entangled pair, you have one stored for a year, and the other has been travelling for a year, just to be detected in about one minute by the remote station. What do you do to your stored photon to convey the bit "1" to the remote station, a light year away, a minute from now? What would you do differently to convey the bit "0" instead? They are expecting the photon, they have been getting one every minute for the last year and the next one is just coming up to them right now. What do you do now to make them receive the bit you intend to send?

I was think more along the line that there would be an entangling apparatus, on earth say. You take a beam of light and split the photons in that beam into their zero-velocity particle state and store these entangled pairs in two separate "containers". When, let's say a Mars mission, comes up, you take one of the "containers" with the mission to Mars. By affecting the photons in the "container" on earth, you get an immediate reaction in the "container" on Mars instead of having to wait for twenty minutes for our contemporary Speed-of-Light communication. Of course, I'm just speculating theoretically and have no idea how the "containers" would be built or how you would measure the effects of the photons in them or apply them to machinery like say that rover. We had to wait twenty minutes each time we sent a command to that rover.

[coloradan]

By affecting the photons in the "container" on earth, you get an immediate reaction in the "container" on Mars instead of having to wait for twenty minutes for our contemporary Speed-of-Light communication.

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.