Locality [The Physics Travel Guide]

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 ====== Locality ======
-<tabbox Why is it interesting?>
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+Locality is a fundamental concept in modern physics and means that object can only be influenced by their immediate surroundings, i.e. locally.
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+For example, a billiard ball only starts rolling when it gets hit with something. It doesn't start rolling around magically.
-Explanations in this section should contain no formulas, but instead colloquial things like you would hear them during a coffee break or at a cocktail party.
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+This concept is made even more precise through [[models:special_relativity|special relativity]]. The fundamental fact at the heart of special relativity is that nothing can move with a velocity faster than the speed of light. This means tells us immediately how far an object can be away to influence another one since the effect always needs time to travel to the object in question.
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-<tabbox Examples>
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