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Brandon Enright
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Double slit experiment and entanglement

Just wondering, what would happen in this experiment.

In the experiment you would first have two entangled particles.

Then you fire one of the particles, lets say "Particle A", at a double slit towards a detector.

While in transit to the detector, what if the other entangled particle, lets call it "Particle B" was observed / had it's wave function collapsed?

Would "Particle A" still generate a wave-like interference pattern or would the wave function for both be collapsed?

In theory you cannot send classical data by entanglement, so this experiment must somehow fail, but I can't quite figure out why. If this experiment were to succeed, then you could read and send data about wave function states over entangled particles.