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lisper, actually measurement is the act of collapsing the wave, and entanglement only exists before the wave function collapse. It's possible to never measure something, and it could be entangled forever.


You didn't read lisper's link, did you?


Yes I read his comment. Both entanglement and measurement apply to individual particles, so the opposite of what he said is true.


You didn't read waqf's comment, did you? You may have read my comment but you clearly didn't read my link.

> actually measurement is the act of collapsing the wave, and entanglement only exists before the wave function collapse. It's possible to never measure something, and it could be entangled forever.

Entangled particles continue to be entangled even after they are "measured". If this were not true, faster-than-light communication would be possible. To understand why, read the paper.

The only way to "undo" an entanglement is to time-reverse the process that created the entangled pair to begin with, i.e. to bring the members of the entangled pair back together.


You are correct, I didn't read your link. Why? Because every word of what you said in your comment was wrong. So why would I click the link?


I dunno, because you might learn something?




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