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	Action at a distance (physics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In physics, action at a distance, or actio in distans, is the interaction of two objects which are separated in space with no known mediator of the interaction.
		This term was used most often with early theories of gravity and electromagnetism to describe how an object could "know" the mass (in the case of gravity) or charge (in electromagnetism) of another distant object.
		Einstein coined the term "spooky action at a distance" to describe these situations, which exhibit quantum entanglement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Action_at_a_distance_(physics) (775 words)

	Action at a distance
		In physics, action at a distance is the instantaneous interaction of two objects which are separated in space; the term was coined as "spooky action at a distance" by Albert Einstein.
		At the same time however, action at a distance appears to be an essential feature of some very fundamental quantum mechanical effects like entanglement and quantum nonlocality.
		The ability to formulate a non-relativistic theory that involves action at a distance is nothing new as your discussion of Newtonian gravity indicates.
	www.physicsforums.com /showthread.php?p=293026 (655 words)

	Action at a Distance
		Seeing two charged balloons repel from a distance or two magnets attract from a distance raises the eyebrow of a child and maybe even causes a chuckle or a "wow." Indeed, an action-at-a-distance or non-contact force is quite unusual.
		The strength of the stinky field is dependent upon the distance from the stinky diaper and the amount of stinky in the diaper.
		And clearly charge and distance seem to be two variables which effect the strength of an electric field.
	www.glenbrook.k12.il.us /gbssci/phys/Class/estatics/u8l4a.html (1611 words)

	Action at a Distance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		All components of the universe, small or large, obey the laws of mechanics, and all phenomena are in the last analysis based on matter in motion.
		Whenever the nature of the transmission of certain actions and effects over a distance was not yet understood, the ether was resorted to as a conceptual solution of the transmitting medium.
		After 1916 Einstein strove to produce what is now called the theory of relativity into a formulation that includes gravitation, which was still being expressed in the form imparted to it by Newton; i.e., that of a theory of action at a distance.
	abyss.uoregon.edu /~js/glossary/action_at_a_distance.html (293 words)

	Michael Faraday on the Structure of the Aether, and the Nature of Action-At-A-Distance (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The power of electric conduction (being a transmission of force equal in velocity to that of light) appears to be tied up in and dependent upon the properties of the matter, and is, as it were, existent in them.
		It seems to me, that the resultant of two or more lines of force is in an apt condition for that action which may be considered as equivalent to a lateral vibration; whereas a uniform medium, like the aether, does not appear apt, or more apt than air or water.
		The propagation of light, and therefore probably of all radiant action, occupies time; and, that a vibration of the line of force should account for the phaenomena of radiation, it is necessary that such vibration should occupy time also.
	www.padrak.com.cob-web.org:8888 /ine/FARADAY1.html (960 words)

	LinuxElectrons - Spooky Action at a Distance in Action
		LinuxElectrons - Spooky Action at a Distance in Action
		The experiment, which was unusually challenging even for scientists accustomed to crossing the boundary between the macroscopic and quantum worlds, is described in the Dec. 1 issue of Nature.* NIST scientists entangled six beryllium ions (charged atoms) so that their nuclei were collectively spinning clockwise and counterclockwise at the same time.
		Spooky Action at a Distance in Action
	www.linuxelectrons.com /article.php/20051201234226499 (881 words)

	View topic - Action at a distance through the Aether
		What are the non-Aether explanations for action at a distance and are they as succint and as complete as the Aether explanation.
		The specific action of a potential gradient upon a body is a cause of conjecture and depends upon whether the body is either material or photon radiation.
		There are theories of action at a distance which are based on the Aether and there are those not based on the Aether.
	www.anti-relativity.com /forum/about227.html (3064 words)

	.....Spooky Action at a Distance.....
		The joke is on Albert Einstein, who, back in 1935, dreamed up this trick of synchronized atoms - "spooky action at a distance," as he called it - as an example of the absurdity of quantum mechanics.
		It has been, as Max Tegmark, a cosmologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, noted, "a 75-year war." It is typical in reporting on this subject to bounce from one expert to another, each one shaking his or her head about how the other one just doesn't get it.
		Leonard Susskind, a Stanford theoretical physicist, who called these entanglement experiments "beautiful and surprising," said the term "spooky action at a distance," was misleading because it implied the instantaneous sending of signals.
	www.public.iastate.edu /~yikes/spooky_action.html (2471 words)

	Action at a Distance
		A philosophical description is proposed, of the basic mechanisms of physical universe and especially of the nature of matter, that is compatible with such phenomena as instantaneous action at a distance.
		Action at a distance would seem eminently possible if not probable, providing we integrate our purely physical picture of the universe with a concept of energies originating from a non-physical-universe source.
		We thus have not only a possibility of "instantaneous action at a distance" but also of particles disappearing in one spot and reappearing in another, which agrees with recent experimental evidence.
	www.hasslberger.com /phy/phy_12.htm (1779 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Quantum computer draws closer
		He called it "spooky action at a distance".
		He believed there was something profound in the phenomenon and that buried in its seeming absurdity lay something that could overthrow quantum mechanics - a successful theory of the way the Universe behaves on the atomic and sub-atomic level.
		According to some, a computer based on quantum entanglement would not be bound by those limits as it would use "spooky action at a distance" instead of electrons or photons.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/3043731.stm (566 words)

	Spooky Action Theatre - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Einstein called it "spooky action at a distance," that quirky property of particles down among the quarks.
		Two bits of matter can have their fates "entangled" such that, forever after, what happens to one is mirrored in the other, instantly - no matter how distant in space.
		Compelling plays that transform us are works of collective imagination, assembling bits and pieces of words, settings and actions to create a constellation of meaning.
	www.spookyaction.org (273 words)

	Action at a Distance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Action is doing, being, acting, moving, and so forth, all within the constraints and limits of so-called physical laws.
		An excellent example of reaction mass is the explosive remnants of a rocket, where semi-controlled explosions force mass to exit very fast in the direction opposite to that of one’s desired travel.
		It is the pivoting, the sudden impulse in another direction, the abrupt reversal of action that provides the connecting link with the resources of the universe.
	www.halexandria.org /dward783.htm (1023 words)

	Recognizing Action at a Distance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Our goal is to recognize human actions at a distance, at resolutions where a whole person may be, say, 30 pixels tall.
		We introduce a novel motion descriptor based on optical flow measurements in a spatio-temporal volume for each stabilized human figure, and an associated similarity measure to be used in a nearest-neighbor framework.
		To classify the action being performed by a human figure in a query sequence, we retrieve nearest neighbor(s) from a database of stored, annotated video sequences.
	graphics.cs.cmu.edu /people/efros/research/action (458 words)

	The Palimpsest
		The playful nature of this action arises from the deployment of imagination (or the "Creative Imagination" as H. Corbin and the sufis call it) -- and also from the visionary discipline of "paranoia criticism" (S. Dali), the subjective revaluation of aesthetic categories.
		By a process of "mutability" wherein everything symbolizes both itself and its opposite simultaneously, the hieroglyphic scientist weaves spells in a dark forest of ambiguity which is precisely the realm of the artist -- and in fact alchemists were known as "artists" of the "spagyric Art".
		Our "crazy" synthesis of Nietzsche and Fourier will reveal them both as neighbors of the Renaissance Hermeticists, who also pursued utopian political programs through action on the level of aesthetic perception, and through the very pleasure of creativity which in fact constitutes both the means and the goal of the utopian project.
	www.hermetic.com /bey/palimpsest.html (4376 words)

	EMRP Push Gravity Theory : Action at a distance
		If one calculates the attraction between the Earth and the moon, one would realize that if this force field had to be replaced by a weightless steel cable, it would require the cable to be about 800km in diameter in order to withstand the strain.
		Between the Earth and sun, the cable would have to be nearly as large in diameter as the Earth; and the attraction between the components of double stars is millions of times greater than between the Earth and sun.
		This imaginary pulling action gives the false impression that the masses are the sources of such yet unknown, mysterious force field, we call the gravitational field.
	www.blazelabs.com /f-g-dist.asp (1205 words)

	Re: Spooky Action At a Distance Question (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		On the question of QM 'spooky action at a distance', which really isn't involved in the question, I would like to suggest an image for popular visualization.
		Spooky action at a distance, say by careful measurement on an entangled painting at a distance, would change the random collection of dots.
		But overall the painting would look quite the same to the viewer and he could never tell, even by examining the dots closely, what particular actions had been taken on the distant painting.
	www.lns.cornell.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /spr/2004-06/msg0061945.html (471 words)

	Bell's Theorem: Physics
		They refused to believe that this effect, which Einstein later called "spooky action at a distance," could really happen, and thus viewed it as evidence that quantum mechanics was incomplete.
		Spooky action at a distance is part of nature.
		This is where the spooky action at a distance comes in.
	www.ncsu.edu /felder-public/kenny/papers/bell.html (7601 words)

	Spooky Action At a Distance
		If we conisder the distance function and planck length, how fuzzy indeed the picture becomes:) But having gone to such lengths:) we have embued the subject of simultaneity, with most interesting questions and inthe quest to answer, what is entanglement and we see Penrose and others engaged in what Bell presents.
		It spawned a whole area of research with tangible results, and that is on the road to the idea behind simultaneity.
		Re: Spooky Action At a Distance -- DocN 9/16/03 (
	www.superstringtheory.com /forum/metaboard/messages18/199.html (320 words)

	PNAS -- News Archive102802
		In the 1930s, Einstein and colleagues conducted a "thought experiment" in which quantum theory seemed to predict "spooky action at a distance," whereby measurements of one particle instantaneously influence the apparent properties of another particle arbitrarily far away.
		In the current article, Richard Gill from the University of Utrecht and colleagues counter this argument, saying that time is irrelevant, given the freedom of the experimenter to control the experimental setting.
		When the availability of hosts was unpredictable, viruses with latency periods had an evolutionary advantage, and the magnitude of the advantage grew as the amount of unpredictability increased.
	www.pnas.org /misc/archive102802.shtml (1272 words)

	Einstein's "Spooky Action At A Distance"
		Einstein's "Spooky Action At A Distance"
		Einstein called it "spooky action at a distance" and it always bothered the great physicist who wanted the atomic world to conform to his General Theory of Relativity that predicts strict order in the large macro worlds of suns and planets.
		Quantum entanglement is a phenomenon that Einstein famously dubbed "spooky action at a distance." In short, an entangled pair of photons have quantum properties that are linked to each other.
	www.testmy.net /forum/t-10910 (3329 words)

	Articles: Action at a distance
		Inventors in France and England at the end of the eighteenth century independently worked out a technique involving lines of towers, each in sight of the next, bearing moveable sails or flaps that operators used to pass messages in code successively down the chain.
		It had been in use for more than half a century for various devices that communicated sound over a distance, including a method of signalling using musical notes, a kind of foghorn and an improved speaking tube.
		In this sense it became a common SF term, almost a cliché, though in its definitive incarnation, in that strange technology in Star Trek that enabled people to be instantaneously transported without needing anything so mundane as equipment at both ends, it is instead called a transporter.
	www.worldwidewords.org /articles/tele.htm (1464 words)

	EPR (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		It is argued that all commonly proposed loopholes to avoid the conclusion of "spooky action at distance" are implausible.
		Apart from the fact that instant influence at a distance seems magical to many people, it it is often claimed that it's in conflict with relativity theory.
		A strange aspect of this is that if the maximum EPR distance is exceeded, then the branch selected at A, for example, could be a different branch than the branch selected in the middle.
	henrysturman.com.cob-web.org:8888 /english/articles/EPR.php (11719 words)

	Water and Effortless Action at a Distance
		Wiggins is not alone in thinking that water is the lead player in living processes.
		Wiggins subscribes to the two-states model, which proposes that liquid water at ambient temperatures is a mixture of domains of low-density water (LDW) with intermolecular bonding similar to ice 1h and domains of high-density water (HDW) with intermolecular bonding similar to ice II (Two-States Water Explains All?
		One of the most convincing evidence for water’s effortless action – which requires no energy input – is the synthesis of ATP from ADP in the LDW within the pores of cellulose acetate films.
	www.i-sis.org.uk /Waterseffortlessaction.php (2046 words)

	Action at a distance
		“At a time when two-thirds of trips to the field by maintenance personnel result in no corrective action and nearly one-third of dollars spent on maintenance is wasted, companies clearly need better tools and procedures,” says Rustin Ekness, director of AMS Suite marketing and sales for Emerson Process Management.
		When indications point to the need for on-site maintenance, corrective action can be planned and scheduled carefully to make the most of the trip.
		Technicians with the right skills, parts and tools can be dispatched during a scheduled outage or planned downtime, and complete the task in a single visit.
	www.plantservices.com /articles/2005/416.html (802 words)

	mininova : Movies > Documentary > Tom Bearden - Radionics: Action at a Distance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The file Tom Bearden - Radionics: Action at a Distance might also be available on usenet.
		Tom is a theoretical conceptualist active in the study of scalar electromagnetics, advanced electrodynamics, unified field theory, KGB energetics weapons and phenomena, free energy systems, electromagnetic healing via the unified field action of extended Sachs-Evans electrodynamics, and human development.
		Particularly known for his work establishing a theory of overunity electrical power systems, scalar electromagnetic weapons, energetics weapons, and the use of time-as-energy in both power systems and the mind-body interaction.
	www.mininova.org /tor/345539 (1691 words)

	'Spooky action at a distance' \| csmonitor.com
		Back when Herr Schrödinger was writing about stuffing cats and atoms into boxes, he also held that entanglement was the one feature of quantum theory that distinguished it from "classical" physics, in which cause and effect could be distinguished and one object is forbidden from influencing another object at a distance instantaneously.
		By contrast, according to quantum mechanics, an experimenter could entangle a pair of particles, separate them by vast distances, then instantaneously change the state of one by changing the state of the other - even at distances of millions of light years.
		This "spooky action at a distance," according to Albert Einstein and two colleagues, was a direct result of quantum mechanics if it failed to have more-classical underpinnings.
	www.csmonitor.com /2001/1004/p15s1-stss.html (1415 words)

	Apr 08: Newtonian physics, electromagnetism, action at a distance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Newtonian or classical physics is reductionist, holding that all physical reality can be reduced to a few particles and the laws and forces acting among them.
		Also key to the Clockwork Universe are the conservation laws in Newtonian physics, the idea that the total momentum of an interaction is conserved (i.e.
		However, this attempt to resolve the action at a distance paradox uses a particle nature to light, when observation of interference patterns clearly shows that light has a wave-like nature.
	blueox.uoregon.edu /~karen/astro123/lectures/lec04.html (363 words)

	Spooky Action At a Distance Question (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		So, I ended up reading an article on Spooky Action At a Distance.
		Take an "ideal" rod -- a perfectly straight one that can't be stretched, compressed, or otherwise deformed -- and install one end of it at "point A" and the other end at "point B." Now, from point A, move the rod -- either pull it or push it along its linear axis.
		How long does it take for the rod to move at point B? Does the action at point A transfer to point B instantaneously, or does it go at some speed less than or equal to the speed of light?
	www.lns.cornell.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /spr/2004-06/msg0061841.html (198 words)

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