D-n, a long reply was wiped out when my internet connection broke. I said nothing about reality being non-local. Also people don't think alike, and one person's reality is often another's chaos. Serious thinkers have questioned on what side of the walls of an insane asylum the insane are to be found.

The Science article I noted was directed at determining concentration of common polutant of internal combustion exhaust. For other applications search the web for partition functions and planetary atmospheres. Also molecular modeling of pharmaceuticals (which I already came close to).