I didn't read it all, but I will point out that the non-local reality has been known about WAY before 1982.
It it often reffered to as the EPR (Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen) paradox.
Quantum wave funstion collapse is well know to be instananeous even over long distances.
The important thing is that once the wave function collapse occurs, the particles are no longer in an entangled linear superposition.
Exactly what causes the wave function collapse is unknown as of yet, and is a hotly debated topic.
The way I tend to view it is that particles which are described by a wave function simply do not exist. The WAVES exist, not the particles. As the waves interact they become more and more complex. at a certain point the waves collapse after reaching some limit...a limit in the complexity of the wave (the decoherence principle) or a limit in the amount of energy (quantum gravity).
After the wave collapses, the entrangled waves, instantaneously "become" particles.
In other words I view quantum wave function collapse as a purely objective phenomena, entirely independant of our observation. I think the problem with the "observer dependant reality" model of quantum physics is that it suffers from the logical fallacy of confusing cause and correlation.
Anyway, once the wave function collapses, the particles are no longer in instantaneous communication. In fact, as I described, they never were. Their corresponding waves were, but not the particles.
In fact even to reffer to it as "communication" is a bit chairitible.
Einstein showed how faster than light speed communications would throw out all sorts of hideous paradoxes with regards to relativity.
The "communication" of quantum wave functions however does not cause these paradoxes. I'd have to go into too much detail to explain why, but they are not ruled out by relativity.
The article then goes on making statements about the holographic nature of the universe which could be considered speculative at best.
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