“The principle of locality states that no instantaneous transmission of physical influences between spatially separated physical systems ("action at a distance") is allowed, or... that physical systems can only be physically influenced by their immediate environment. ...[The] broader principle states that any possible definitive determinations concerning any given system—its physical state; the application of technology (such as a measurement, which, rather than a prediction, definitely determines a physical state of a quantum system); the falsifiability of claims concerning quantum systems, and so forth—is local.”
“For several centuries, there has been a strong feeling that nonlocal theories are not acceptable in physics. ...Newton felt very uneasy about action-at-a-distance and... Einstein regarded it as 'spook...”
Principle of locality
“In the long debate about action at a distance versus contact action we also find a concern with the effective individuation of particles and subsystems and with distant action. Belief in contact actio...”
Principle of locality
“Frans van Luteren (1991), in his extensive... study of conceptions of gravity in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, demonstrates that a quest for intelligibility was uppermost for several physic...”
Principle of locality
“Classical electrodynamics is generally understood to be the paradigm of a local and causal physical theory. ...[A] theory with real fields realistically appears to be a local theory. ...But what, exac...”
Principle of locality
“[L]ocality... reflects our ability to construct the "big picture" like a jigsaw puzzle, starting with a description of the most basic interactions among elementary particles.”
Principle of locality