Will quantum entaglement allow faster than light communicationsacross vast distances?

Through entanglement information passes with no speed.
The information passed this way looks random to us, we cannot control it in any way. We cannot transmit anything through it (ftl or otherwise). There are certain theorems that forbid this at least for now (no communication, no cloning theorems). For now the use is limited to secure communications and faster processing of certain problems (e.g. traveling salesman)
No one knows anything about the medium/dimension(s) through which this information is passed that we can call entanglement channel (fairy dust channel goes just as well at this point).
The instant transfer of random info is real and no local hidden variables can account for it (it's not something that is hardcoded in the parameters of the entangled photons before they were sent in different directions)- therein lies the contradiction with Einstein for whom no such action at the distance should be possible. He believed that there must be some predetermined properties of those particles at an original point when they were just 1 particle that makes them look entangled. So far all experiments prove that this is not the case and no local hidden variables can account for the results, therefor Einstein was wrong on this occasion (look for Bell inequalities experiments) but, we forgive him since he was right about everything else .

On Tuesday, July 1, 2014 1:01:37 PM UTC+1, newby wrote:
Through entanglement information passes with no speed.


You are mere jargon junkies with little understanding of the morphing story which was created out of the absolute/relative time,space and motion. All they did 100 years ago was made a bad situation worse by expanding on the voodoo instead of looking at what Sir Isaac was trying to do. For instance the guys in the mid 19th century were upset as electromagnetic considerations started to appear such as how the Sun illuminates the Earth but as Sir Isaac rejected a medium for transmission of solar radiation those poor guys were in a bind -

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/i...5 4.336.x.425

Fifty years later they dumped aether on Newton as 'absolute space' and then rejected it all over again. What a charade !, what pretense ! but all it means is that these mathematicians neither knew nor cared what Newton was doing with such things and tinkering with retrograde resolution and a celestial sphere system.

This stuff should be childsplay for contemporaries,not so much explaining the absolute/relative voodoo as it was originally intended but how to actually work with those invisible influences which influence orbital speeds and geometry by taking into account the galactic orbital motion of stars and solar systems.

The early 20th century rubbish is more or less a capitulation to a clockwork solar system rather than an escape from it and I can say this without the slightest objection. The recovery of astronomy is through visual imaging and ignoring a mathematical community lost in its own wordplay labyrinth.