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Non locality in QM and Special Relativity, is it real?

A recent article at scientific american online, reviews the debate and latest research over the idea of non-locality as being a real quality of reality or simply an apparent one, as a consequence of the mathematical framework used to describe the quantum mechanical theory. It covers the various results revealed by people like Bell and Bohm, who provided elegant results that seemed to exclude locality from being a part of reality. Recent findings seem to coroborate those results and lend strenght to the idea that entangled particles are indeed connected in a "spooky" fashion that is independent of their physical distance. However, to me this idea is missing a big fact regarding the nature of reality. Namely, that our theoretical models of it, QM on the small scale and Special and General Relativity on the large scale are incomplete descriptions of the physical world. We still have not resolved the micro and macro worlds using a single theory that smoothly permutes between the...