:
: Am I correct in thinking that this technology is FTL, and not subject
: to any kind of range restriction or interference/ signal blockage?
:
: Can we therefore imagine that some future interplanetary mission might
: take with it a lump of entangled particles (having left the entangled
: 'mates' of those particles back on Earth), allowing the spacecraft and
: mission control to exchange data instantaneously, no matter how far
: away the craft travels?

No. Or rather, you can imagine it (and, eg, Stross did in Singluarity
Sky and Iron Sunrise), but there's not much of a justification for it
in the theory and practice of quantum so-called-teleportation.

Because, in order to accomplish the so-called-teleportation, you
must 1) make a measurement at the souce, 2) send a message about what
you found to to the destination, and finally you can 3) cause the
"quantum state" to "teleport". Note specifically step 2.


Wayne Throop http://sheol.org/throopw