The result of the feedback - the result of the fact that our electron has to be considered not in isolation but as part of a holistic electromagnetic web filling the Universe - is that the electron resists our attempts to push it around, because of the influence of all those charged particles in distant galaxies, even though no information-carrying signal can travel between the galaxies faster than light.
p. 226
John Gribbin Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality
Back Bay Books, 1995

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