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Creepy Study Suggests AI Is The Reason We've Never Found Aliens (www.sciencealert.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Man, that quantum entanglement article has some glaring mistakes in relatively basic facts, e.g.:

nothing in nature can travel faster than the speed of light except for photons, which possess zero rest mass.

Photons obviously don't travel faster than light, I assume that one was just a brainfart.

But it's also not just photons which go at the speed of light. Anything with no mass, so for example also gravitational waves, travels at the speed of light/causality.

Really annoys me, because my current understanding is that faster-than-light communication with quantum entanglement is just complete horseshit. But various people, who know a lot more about this stuff, seem to have not dismissed it yet, so I always try to find those perspectives. This does not appear to be one of those...