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The German term “Nahwirkungsprinzip” is more impressive than the somewhat colourless word “locality”. Certainly the idea behind these words, proposed by Faraday around 1830, initiated the most significant conceptual advance in physics after Newton’s Principia. It guided Maxwell in his formulation of the laws of electrodynamics, was sharpened by Einstein in the theory of special relativity and again it was the strict adherence to this idea which led Einstein ultimately to his theory of gravitation, the general theory of relativity.
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Haag, R. (1992). The Principle of Locality in Classical Physics and the Relativity Theories. In: Local Quantum Physics. Texts and Monographs in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-97306-2_2
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