interpetation, it is not clear how it is possible to distinguish between devices associated with the generation of advanced waves as opposed to retarded waves during the collapse of a wave function, and those associated with local measurements of detecting devices which are observed to correspond to retarded wave interactions. By bringing into the picture of wave function collapse the special role played by the Machian, absorber charged particles in the rest of the universe, and their interaction with the measuring device during the collapse, we can distinguish physically between standard local measurements and nonlocal measurements associated with entangled state vectors.

Nonlocal Paradoxes and Quantum Mechanics
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We see that all EPR paradoxes can be resolved by our absorber wave function reduction process. It may now be asked: does our wave function reduction, applied without invoking superluminal speeds of communication, violate known experimental facts in quantum mechanics? There is, of course, no violation of standard causality for [*local*]{} quantum measurements, because we have postulated that for those measurements the wave function reduction is not accompanied by any nonlocal interaction with the charges in the rest of the universe. The absorber mechanism is not activated during the wave function reduction and 