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Yep, time is the problem, not the possibility... considering there are trillions of planets and billions of galaxies...
I read a cool-ish sci-fi book one time that was about the basic idea Einstein had that you could communicate faster than light if you had two entangled particles. Even though we know we really can't but the book was fun because it suggested that whoever or whatever created the universe did that on purpose so that we wouldn't be dangerous to each other. But put the "Spookyons" out there so that we could eventually communicate but never be close enough to ever touch each other but in the story we find one of these little spookyons and it's connected to another species unbelievably far away but they managed to communicate and put it in a robot so the alien can visit Earth and all this crap it's really cool it's dumb but it's cool.
Sorry you made me think of it.
We can't but we know it's potentially possible with wormholes...if they exist...which in theory they should. So don't lose hope.
Do you remember what the book was called? I'm re-reading the bobbyverse right now, and it's got a lot of FTL communication in it.
I am not OC and so don't know for certain, but it seems likely it's New Eden.
Bobiverse is phenomenal.
Yes it was the new Eden series. Bobiverse is amazing, agreed!
I know there are lots of questions about quantum entanglement, but I didn't know it had been disproven.
What was the book? It sounds reminiscent of Ender's Game.
edit: I don't know for certain, but it seems likely it's New Eden.
The cosmic entity so unfathomably vast that it had no prior experience of self once the ansible signal passed through it. Ender named it "Jane", IIRC?
I don't remember with any degree of certainty, but yes, that sounds correct.
Quantum entanglement hasn't been disproven, but the idea that it can be used for faster than light communication has.
I'm no physicist, but I always doubted it.
Einstein definitely did not believe you could communicate faster than light if you had two entangled particles. Einstein believed non-locality was an absurdity.