tl:dw: Gravity propagates at the speed of light, but the mass causing the gravity is trapped under an event horizon that not even light can escape, so how do gravity escape the event horizon.
There's a few explanations that all end up at the same result:
- Gravity warps the fabric of spacetime, but each bit of spacetime is only influenced by it's neighboring bits. So spacetime is still able to get dragged towards the singularity in the same way that a water molecule gets dragged towards a waterfall.
- If gravity is a quantum field, then the force of gravity would be mediated by virtual particles of the gravitational force carrying particle (known as the graviton). Virtual particles (on account of them being more mathematical artifacts than real things that exist) can travel at any speed, including at infinite speed, so the virtual gravitons wouldn't be stopped by the event horizon.
- From the frame of reference of an outside observer, anything approaching a black hole takes an infinite amount of time to cross the event horizon, therefore all mass that has ever fallen into a black hole (including the mass of the star that turned into the black hole) is still outside the event horizon for anyone also outside the event horizon. This means that the gravitational influence of all that mass is still causally connected with any outside observers, and thus they would still feel the gravity of said mass.
Yes. Entanglement is not a non local interaction, but is instead a non local correlation that was created by a local interaction.
In order to entangle two particles, they have to be brought close enough together to interact with one another, but they will stay entangled with one another over seemingly infinite distance so long as the wave function doesn’t collapse. This is why entanglement is so weird, since once you measure the state of one particle, you automatically know the state of the other particle regardless of how far away it is.
On its own, this can’t be used to transmit info (and certainly not faster than light), since measuring one particle causes the wave function to collapse, thereby breaking the entanglement. However, there are quantum computing systems that use entanglement to generate encryption keys, “teleport” quantum states, etc. It’s just that the entanglement itself can't be directly used for transmit information, and any useful info still has to be transmitted at light speed or slower through conventional communication channels.