action at a distance
Britishnoun
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The best winter storm-watching combines lashing rain, high winds, monstrous whitecaps — and a warm and/or safe place to view the action at a distance.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2022
Scientists have captured the first ever image of a phenomenon which Albert Einstein once described as "spooky action at a distance".
From BBC • Jul. 12, 2019
His ability to think deeply and clearly about action at a distance, particularly for gravitational, electric, and magnetic forces, later enabled him to create his revolutionary theory of relativity.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
Experiments since then have shown that this spooky action at a distance is quite real, which rules out the particular version of hidden variables that Einstein advocated.
From Nature • May 19, 2015
This is the foundation of the denial of action at a distance; namely the progress of the stream of the situations of a scientific object can be determined by an analysis of the stream itself.
From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North
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