Talk:Quantum pseudo-telepathy

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A fact from Quantum pseudo-telepathy appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 December 2008 (check views). A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/December.

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Suggestion: If someone constructed two 3x3 grids and then filled them out in an animated gif then it would make a great picture (for dyk?) and illustrate this fine article. Victuallers (talk) 12:48, 29 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Too esoteric

I'd recommend "dumbing down" the intro some so that the average reader, or even a school kid, might get a better idea of what the article is about. Boston (talk) 03:21, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. I found this via "Did You Know" on the Main Page. I cannot make heads or tails of it. No knowledge on the part of the reader should be assumed. --Nricardo (talk) 03:39, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have no idea what this article is about. Too bad its on the front page in DYK.60.53.236.225 (talk) 04:28, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm pretty sure there is a tag that addresses situations like this but I don't know it. Boston (talk) 05:14, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What this article needs is a statement along the lines of "this will not happen in the real world because..." Or maybe it will, in which case that needs to be said. --NE2 07:18, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Amen. I have no idea how you would put two macroscopic players into an "entangled quantum state", and I have the faint feeling that the same laws predicting the "entangled behaviour" of the scenario will forbid its creation. -- Syzygy (talk) 07:48, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree about simplifying the article. As it stands, I'm left asking: is this article real or a joke? --Robinson weijman (talk) 08:02, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, I also experienced this some time ago, and I was really thrilled when I read about it on the Main Page. But then I was disappointed because I didn't really understand much about the causes of the phenomenon. Diego_pmc ^Talk 08:44, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

information transfer

So can you transfer information via quantum entanglement or not? 24.137.73.33 (talk) 04:09, 4 December 2008 (UTC) and does this occur at faster than light speeds? 24.137.73.33 (talk) 04:11, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Question

I'm no expert, but isn't the caption ->

When attempting to construct a 3x3 table filled with the numbers +1 and -1, such that each row has an even number and each column an odd number of negative entries, a conflict is bound to emerge.

wrong? Since rows are horizontal and columns are vertical, shouldn't that statement be switched? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pbroks13 (talk • contribs) 04:23, December 4, 2008

No — the table isn't talking about the sum of the numbers, it's talking about the number of times that the negative entry is placed in each row or column. So, in the top row, there are 0 negative entries, and in the middle row there are 2; there is 1 negative entry in each of the first two columns. It might be slightly clearer to say "...such that each row has an even number of negative entries, and each column has an odd number of negative entries" — but I'll leave that change to people with a better understanding of the thought experiment than mine. (I can get this far, but not much further.) —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 05:04, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]