In this short paper, we characterise the notion of preferential attachment in networks as action at a distance, and argue that it can only be an emergent phenomenon – the actual mechanism by which networks grow always being the closing of triangles.

How does it come about that alongside of the idea of ponderable matter, which is derived by abstraction from everyday life, the physicists set the idea of the existence of another kind of matter, the ether? The explanation is probably to be sought in those phenomena which have given rise to the theory of action at a distance, and in the properties of light which have led to the undulatory theor...

“...HOW does it come about that alongside of the idea of ponderable matter, which is derived by abstraction from everyday life, the physicists set the idea of the existence of another kind of matter, the ether? The explanation is probably to be sought in those phenomena which have given rise to the theory of action at a distance, and in the properties of light which have led to the undulatory t...

The meaning of instantaneous action at a distance is elucidated. It is shown that the absence of a medium to transmit action (usually referred to as AAD in the literature) and instantaneous action are not identical. Since the term “instantaneous” is incompatible with relativity and field theory, a critique is presented on the concept of time in relativity. It is argued that relativity does not ...

Using an “action at a distance” formulation we probe the possible classical interactions for tensionless strings, (the T → 0 limit of the ordinary bosonic string.) We find Gμν and Bμν type interactions but no dilaton interactions. e-mail address: [email protected] e-mail address: [email protected], [email protected]

This paper presents a template-based algorithm to track and recognize athlete’s actions in an integrated system using only visual information. Usually the two elements of tracking and action recognition are treated separately. In contrast, our algorithm emphasizes that tracking and action recognition can be tightly coupled into a single framework, where tracking assists action recognition and v...

Modelling how a word is activated in human memory is an important requirement for determining the probability of recall of a word in an extra-list cueing experiment. The spreading activation, spooky-action-at-a-distance and entanglement models have all been used to model the activation of a word. Recently a hypothesis was put forward that the mean activation levels of the respective models are ...