Science Illustrated

No you can't get next week’s Lotto numbers

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Scientists want to develop a quantum Internet, in which entangled particles send unhackable data. But although the particles can also send data back and forth in time, next week’s Lotto numbers cannot be sent to the present via a quantum channel. This is due to the indeermina­te character of quantum mechanics – that a particle’s position and motion cannot be known at the same time: a measuremen­t in the present changes and scrambles the informatio­n.

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Particles cannot send data about next week’s Lotto numbers back in time.

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