Concept
Principle of locality

Overview
physical principle that only immediate surroundings can influence an object
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Related ideas
- General relativity
- Classical physics
- Correlation
- Richard Bentley
- Information
- Maxwell's equations
- Probability
- Physics
- Newton's law of universal gravitation
- Quantum mechanics
- Quantum field theory
- Quantum entanglement
- Special relativity
- James Clerk Maxwell
- Commutative property
- Wave–particle duality
- Interpretations of quantum mechanics
- Action at a distance
- Albert Einstein
- Retrocausality
- Hidden-variable theory
Place in the tradition
Part of Determinism.