My earlier post above.
The most elegant explanation available is in "SynchroDestiny" by Deepak Chopra. If you don't have a science background, you may struggle a little with the quantum physics part though. It's the
Schrodinger's Cat kind of stuff all over again.
Chopra's book also contains a few interesting examples of how a person's thoughts can apparently (and immediately) affect reality in another location. For example, a baby wakes up and cries for milk. At that exact moment, the mother's breasts begins to leak milk, even though mother and child are separated, far away in different locations.