...no quantum physicist...has ever claimed that a particle has been 'teleported' in the classical sense, i.e., moved to another location at superluminal velocity..
We shouldn't mix different concepts. The entanglement doesn't require the particle share some information by superluminal speed - they simply containing it already. We can illustrate such situation by lava lamp model, for example:
If we create a surface undulations on the some oil droplet inside the lava lamp and separate such droplet into two smaller ones, the surface undulations doesn't disappear. Both the resulting droplets will undulate "at phase" and if we connect them occasionally, the original surface vibrations will be restored again. By such a way, both oily droplets "knows" about it's entangled member at the distance, the surface mode of vibrations serves here as the simple analog "state memory".
With compare to entanglement phenomena, the concept of quantum evaporation and condensation is conceptually analogous to repetitive condensation and re-evaporation of water droplets in the rain. The people are having a problem to understand the Aether concept due the immense density of vacuum, because our Universe appears to be formed by extremely dense interior of dense star or black hole. Whole AWT is just an mechanical extrapolation of common processes to huge mass/energy density.
