So the jist of that is Brian Cox is wrong about instantaneous? He still persists to say that "And so, every electron in the Universe knows about the state of every other electron"
I discovered the existence of Pauli's exclusion principle from this section of this video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f9wcSLs8ZQ&t=35m30s
If you watch it for a bit, he explains that it applies to the whole universe. Is this true? On Wikipedia it says otherwise...