or is this just a rehash of a fringe scientific possibility sparked by a recent paper?
I agree with Modulus. It seems like a rehash, but perhaps the word 'fringe' is inappropriate. It is well known that there are interpretations of QM that require non-locality, and we've discussed that in these fora. The problem is that there are really good reasons to be suspicious of non-locality.
I suspect that there is some real science going on somewhere, but that what is reported here is the catchy part.
Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? Scott Adams