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This seems to come up in every discussion of quantum entanglement.

It doesn't travel faster than the speed of light. Information can't travel faster than c.

No need to worry about Trisolarans.


If "it" = information, then sure. But the collapse of the quantum state is instantaneous.
Only in theories where it collapses, and nobody seriously thinks Copenhagen is correct these days.
I thought information could only travel as fast as light because that was fastest medium we're currently aware of that can carry information. But that doesn't necessarily preclude other, faster mediums from existing, no?
Not quite. There are two speeds in relativity: the maximum speed and non-maximum speeds (i.e. everything else). It just so happens that light travels at the maximum speed.

Supra-luminal signals will almost necessarily imply that it's possible to violate causality by arranging a series of supra-luminal communications. Not every supra-luminal communication violates causality, but it's hard to think of a way to build a consistent theory that would both preclude causality violations and permit at least some supra-luminal signaling.

Supersonic speed doesn't violate laws of nature or violates casuality. Superluminal speed in matter just produces Cherenkov's radiation.

At superluminal speed, we will be able to hit photons in any order, including reverse order, or emit photons and catch them later. Why this is a problem for casuality?

I know next to nothing about physics, but isn't the "It just so happens" part of what you said potentially misleading? Isn't it that light is massless, so that directly implies that it would travel at the maximum speed?
It's a distinction with no difference. Only massless particles can move at the "maximum speed", in our Universe these are photons and gluons. And maybe gravitons, if they exist.

Similarly, massless particles can't move below the "maximum speed", as they'll have no energy or momentum and won't be able to interact with anything.

Why would the absence of mass force something to travel at the maximum speed? I could understand it being able to travel at that speed; why would it always do so though?
Theoretically, a massless particle can move slower than light. But then it'll have zero energy and momentum, so it won't be able to interact with anything.
Thanks. The equations give the answer in the end, I found this explanation the best [1].

The only way to get a zero mass is if the energy is zero, or the velocity is c.

[1] https://profoundphysics.com/why-do-photons-have-no-mass-simp...

No. It's an absolute, inviolable, universal limit on any and all interactions in the universe. It was recently confirmed that even gravitational waves are limited to the speed of light. This (and the Fermi Paradox) are the strongest evidence that faster than light travel or communication of any kind is impossible.

We just call it the "speed of light" because it's the speed that massless particles (like photons) travel at in a vacuum.

Ok, but why?
Per relativity, any medium that could conceptually facilitate transfer of information or of causality (which are basically the same thing) faster than the speed that light happens to travel at would also be able to reverse direction and arrive at their source in space earlier than the time that they left. That effect is completely unrelated to light itself.
"If time travel is possible, then there is no such thing as time." — Kurt Gödel, Einstein's great friend at Princeton's Institute For Advanced Study.

Einstein once remarked that he went to his office "just to have the privilege of walking home with Kurt Gödel."

https://imgur.com/a/avUwwHk

https://archive.ph/6doQh#selection-707.279-711.1

https://www.amazon.com/When-Einstein-Walked-G%C3%B6del-Excur...

IIRC It’s not that light is a medium. It is that light goes that particular speed max (photons can go slower in fact) because that is the speed of causality.

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