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This reveals my severe ignorance about quantum mechanics; but I've always wondered if entanglement could be used to transmit binary data by way of timing and presence or lack of presence of a transmission. So maybe every 1ms is a position, and either something is sent or not.

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You can't. There's a theorem and everything. If there is some way to do it, QM must be wrong.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem

Thanks for the link; I had no idea what to even search for to understand this.

Thank you. For me, this clears up a long held misconception.

Quantum teleportation is a process that both sender and receiver have to coordinate. Part of that coordination is that the sender measures 2 classical bits of information on their entangled qubit and transmits those two classical bits to the receiver. Then the receiver uses those two bits to perform certain operations on their half of the entangled qubit pair in such a way that their qubit is now exactly the same as sender's original qubit. As you can see, there's no way to use timing in this, other than the timing of the classical bits being transferred.

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