[RhoTheta]

It sounds like Orson Scott Card’s description of how the Ansible operates. (Children of the Mind - #4 in the Ender series)

[ClearCase_guy]

I thought of the ansible also. But this seems to argue against it:

The trick can't be used to actually send information, because each particle's condition is random until it is measured.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

LOL!