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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=physics">physics</a>, the <b>principle of locality</b> states that an object is influenced directly only by its immediate surroundings. A theory that includes the principle of locality is said to be a "local theory". This is an alternative to the concept of instantaneous, or "non-local" <a href="page.php?w=action_at_a_distance">action at a distance</a>. Locality evolved out of the <a href="page.php?w=Classical_field_theory">field theories</a> of <a href="page.php?w=classical_physics">classical physics</a>. The idea is that</p><p>
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