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The phrase "action at a distance" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in scientific contexts, particularly in physics, to describe a phenomenon where an object can affect another object without being in physical contact.
Example: "The concept of action at a distance is fundamental in understanding gravitational forces in physics."
Alternatives: "remote interaction" or "non-contact influence".
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Einstein called it "spooky action at a distance".
Albert Einstein, not comfortable with the concept, called it "spooky action at a distance".
That instantaneous link is the "spooky action at a distance" of which Einstein was so skeptical.
"You've read about action at a distance, or quantum theory," she said.
What's happening isn't really spooky action at a distance; it's spooky distance, revealed through an action.
The demonstrated reality of spooky action at a distance argues that such order does not exist.
Einstein, who never really accepted entanglement's existence, called it, derisively, "spooky action at a distance".
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John Bell replaced the "arbitrary axioms" (Bell 1987, page 11) of Kochen-Specker and others by an assumption of locality, of no action-at-a-distance.
In the later Middle Ages, the Aristotelian theory of the movable medium proved more successful than the extramission and action-at-a-distance theories of al-Kindī and Avicenna.
Throughout this work, motivations of agents are modeled as action-at-a-distance forces that can be characterized by looking at the motion of individuals.
Such action-at-a-distance is common for RNA-based regulation and often derives from secondary and tertiary folding patterns of the RNA itself.
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