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Re:Chinese scientists test quantum entanglement over unprece... by MrZongle2 on Friday June 16, 2017 @10:58AM (#14569560)
Looks like it may have started in 1966 with a story by Ursula K. Le Guin. She called the device an ansible, which is what it was also called in OSC's books.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansible

Re:Chinese scientists test quantum entanglement over unprece... by greeneggs on Saturday June 17, 2017 @03:19PM (#14577306)
According to that Wikipedia page, Le Guin's ansible might not be relying on entanglement.

It "doesn't involve radio waves, or any form of energy. The principle it works on, the constant of simultaneity, is analogous in some ways to gravity ... One point has to be fixed, on a planet of certain mass, but the other end is portable."

About Card's ansible, it says, "Card's description of the ansible's functions in Xenocide involves a fictional subatomic particle, the philote. In the "Enderverse", the two quarks inside a pi meson can be separated by an arbitrary distance while remaining connected by "philotic rays"."

So perhaps Card's "Xenocide" (1991) is where the entanglement => FTL communication myth began?

Re:Chinese scientists test quantum entanglement over unprece... by dleslie on Friday June 16, 2017 @12:25PM (#14570279)
From the book The Dispossessed.

It's a great novel, by the way.