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Quantum Theory Experiment Said to Prove "Spooky" Interactions (economist.com)
universe520 writes: Albert Einstein was troubled by how two particles can communicate with each other even if they are on opposite sides of the galaxy. Today researchers in the Netherlands have closed the final two loopholes in how quantum entanglement works. The Times reports: "The new experiment, conducted by a group led by Ronald Hanson, a physicist at the Dutch university’s Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, and joined by scientists from Spain and England, is the strongest evidence yet to support the most fundamental claims of the theory of quantum mechanics about the existence of an odd world formed by a fabric of subatomic particles, where matter does not take form until it is observed and time runs backward as well as forward."
We have not seen things communicating with each at speeds greater than c. Entanglement is not communication.
The "holographic universe" "theory" is a joke. Real holograms occupy 3 dimensions and require 3 dimensions to be projected onto as well as observers in a space to experience them.
The "simulated universe" "theory" is a joke. Real computers occupy 3 dimensions and speed is determined by physical location (RAM closer to the CPU is accessed more quickly). They may not correlate to the position of objects in the virtual world, but the effects would either be observable for all objects (entangled or not) or not observable (because the simulated universe is blind to such effects since a reasonable simulator would wait until all of its fetching was done before processing the next universal tick).
If your claim is that entanglement manipulates the physical position of data in memory (thus causing the effects to be observable for entangled objects but not other objects), then you've effectively broken out of the simulation. Then you're at the point where entanglement isn't a thing, it's just what you call the effects of moving memory in your simulator, which is part of the actual universe.
Neither of these "theories" are theories. They're baseless, untestable conjectures that a 14 year old thinks up while taking a shit.