Until a few years ago, faster-than-light communication was thought completely impossible, because the theory of special relativity states that such a device would allow communication with the future, and would thus for instance allow to learn about tomorrow's lottery numbers already today. However, recent studies of quantum entanglement and [quantum tunnelling]? may yet provide a theoretical basis for FTL communication. At the present time (2001) this is highly speculative, and it is likely that implementation of such theories will be impractical.
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