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According to our current understanding of physics, the phenomenon of entanglement does not allow for faster-than-light communication or violate the speed of light as the universal speed limit. While it is true that entangled particles can exhibit correlated behavior regardless of the distance between them, this does not imply that information is being transmitted faster than light.

When two particles become entangled, their quantum states become interconnected in such a way that the measurement of one particle can instantaneously affect the state of the other particle, regardless of the distance between them. However, this effect cannot be used to transmit information or communicate because the outcome of the measurement on the entangled particle is random and unpredictable.

To understand this, consider an analogy using a pair of gloves. If you have a pair of gloves and separate them into two boxes, taking one box to a distant location, when you open one box and find a left-handed glove, you instantly know that the glove in the other box is right-handed. However, this knowledge doesn't allow you to transmit any meaningful information because the pairing of the gloves was random, and you don't know the state of the glove until you open the box.

In the case of entangled particles, measuring the state of one particle doesn't provide any useful information about the state of the other particle until the measurement is performed and the results are communicated conventionally, at or below the speed of light. Thus, while entanglement may seem to defy our intuitions about locality and distance, it does not enable faster-than-light communication, and the speed of light remains the maximum speed at which information can travel in the universe based on our current understanding.

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