In the quantum world ( which means really, really, really small ) there is a situation that happens called "quantum entanglement" and it seems to violate special relativity. No one really understands the mechanics behind this phenomena.
In the real world of which we live in, and experiance, for A to effects B there has to be some medium where the information is transfered. For example the act of hearing, when someone talks, the sounds that are generated by the vocal cords are carried by vibrations through the air to a persons ear, and then those vibrations are interperated as sound to the ear. There is a visable chain of events that scientifically can be varified.
With quantum entanglement there is no visable medium in which information transfered from one subatomic particule to another, and distance is not a factor. You could have two particules on opposite sides of the universe and if they are "entangled" and if you measured the spin of one of the particules the other particule (on the other side of the universe) would have the same spin, by measuring the spin of one of the particules you have effected the other particule. The transmittion of information is instantaneous with no visable medium to which a person can point too. This is like you have two people in different cities, one person puts on a sock but does not know what color the sock is. As soon as that person looks and percieves what the color of the sock is lets say on his left foot, the person who is "intangled" their left sock is the same color. The very act of measuring effects the second particule.
I have a friend who thinks "wormholes" but I am not sure.
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