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No information is transmitted. It's like this with every article about entanglement.

If I have a red chip and a black chip and I mail one to you and one to your friend in New York then as soon you open your envelope and see a red chip the information "the envelope in New York contains a black chip" will be "teleported" from New York to your brain. Or not.

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Here's a great interview I linked to last time there was an entanglement article on HN: http://www.signandsight.com/features/614.html

And Eliezer Yudkowsky linked to his own explanation: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/05/spooky-action-a.html

The HN item was: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=276058

Uhh doesn't Eliezer Yudkowsky's account explicitly discount the envelope explanation?

That was a metaphor not an explanation. What's actually happening is pretty much incomprehensible, but is just as unrelated to the transmission of information as my metaphor.

What gets "teleported" is indexical information, information about which Everett branch "you" happen to be in.

One might say that you are in the envelope - different versions of you in different envelopes.

It may sound odd, but it makes a whole lot of completely unphysical behavior in the "collapse" "theory" evaporate in a puff of smoke.

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