Quantum Entanglement Survives, Even Across an Event Horizon

StartsWithABang writes: One of the more puzzling phenomena in our quantum Universe is that of entanglement: two particles remain in mutually indeterminate states until one is measured, and then the other — even if it's across the Universe — is immediately known. In theory, this should be true even if one member of the pair falls into a black hole, although it's impossible to measure that. However, we can (and have) measured that for the laboratory analogue of black holes, known as "dumb holes," and the entanglement survives!

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Re:So.. for a non-physicist

[Anonymous Coward]

1. No. The maximum speed is the speed of light in quantum mechanics. Entanglement doesn't even have a speed. It is, from all measurements that have been done, valid in any reference frame.
2. No. c is defined in terms of time, not the other way around.
3. No. The correlations from entanglement transfer zero bits of information. They can only be observed with the assistance of normal communication channels. Combining the two allows you to hide but not send data.
4. Obligatory xkcd: No.