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Entanglement "simply" means that the other party will have a correlation with your measurements.

Without receiving information of what you measured (inevitably in a slower-than-light way), none of their observations can tell whether you did that thing or not. The behavior of a single entangled particle is perfectly indistinguishable from a non-entangled particle, it's just that for entangled particles certain combined results are impossible or unlikely.

Imagine being given a magic pair of dice which always adds up to 7 when thrown at the same time. If you take them to different rooms and get a 6, you know the other party should have gotten a 1, but you can't use it to transfer any information to them because no matter what you do, in isolation their results are indistinguishable from normal dice.



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