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  2. Action at a distance - Wikipedia

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    Action at a distance is the concept in physics that an object's motion can be ... proportional to the square of the distance between them. [5]: ... time a fourth ...

  3. Principle of locality - Wikipedia

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    In physics, the principle of locality states that an object is influenced directly only by its immediate surroundings. A theory that includes the principle of locality is said to be a "local theory". This is an alternative to the concept of instantaneous, or "non-local" action at a distance.

  4. Action (physics) - Wikipedia

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    In physics, action is a scalar ... the action is the momentum of the particle times the distance it moves, ... [5] Action has dimensions of energy ...

  5. Relativity of simultaneity - Wikipedia

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    Thus, the separation into "true" and "local" times of Lorentz and Poincaré vanishes – all times are equally valid and therefore the relativity of length and time is a natural consequence. [9] [10] [11] In 1908, Hermann Minkowski introduced the concept of a world line of a particle [12] in his model of the cosmos called Minkowski space.

  6. Length contraction - Wikipedia

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    In pre-relativistic physics the ability should decrease at high velocities, because the time in which ionizing particles in motion can interact with the electrons of other atoms or molecules is diminished; however, in relativity, the higher-than-expected ionization ability can be explained by length contraction of the Coulomb field in frames in ...

  7. Faster-than-light - Wikipedia

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    A 2008 quantum physics experiment also performed by Nicolas Gisin and his colleagues has determined that in any hypothetical non-local hidden-variable theory, the speed of the quantum non-local connection (what Einstein called "spooky action at a distance") is at least 10,000 times the speed of light.

  8. Work (physics) - Wikipedia

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    For convenience, consider contact with the spring occurs at t = 0, then the integral of the product of the distance x and the x-velocity, xv x dt, over time t is ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠ x 2. The work is the product of the distance times the spring force, which is also dependent on distance; hence the x 2 result.

  9. Wheeler–Feynman absorber theory - Wikipedia

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    The Wheeler–Feynman absorber theory (also called the Wheeler–Feynman time-symmetric theory), named after its originators, the physicists Richard Feynman and John Archibald Wheeler, is a theory of electrodynamics based on a relativistic correct extension of action at a distance electron particles.