Superluminal information transfer paradox

From: John Schoenfeld (j.schoenfeld_at_programmer.net)
Date: 01/26/05 

Date: 26 Jan 2005 11:31:22 -0800

I have a question about superluminal information transfer. It is known
that a superluminal signal may be transmitted, but that information
cannot accompany it.

In this case, the sender transmits a superluminal signal which causes a
random signal to be recorded by the receiver, superluminally. But since
the receiver recorded a random signal, the probability that it
precisely matches the senders signal is greater than 0. Thus, given
sufficient communications the probability that at least one set of
information gets superluminally transmitted approaches certainty.

To prohibit these possibilities, one could argue that the receiver will
never receive a matching signal superluminally. But withdrawing
possibilities from what the receiver can possibly record is to imply an
order to what it is being record - an order which can be exploited to
communicate information superluminally.

Thus, if the receiver records random signals then there is a
possibility of superluminal information transfer, if it is not random
then it's implicit order can be exploited to transfer information.
Isn't this a paradox?

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