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  • adverb In a nonlocal manner; not locally

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Examples

  • Of one of the key discoveries of researchers in this arena, she has written, “They had demonstrated that big things like atoms were nonlocally connected, even in matter so large that you could hold it in your hand.”

    Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011

  • Of one of the key discoveries of researchers in this arena, she has written, “They had demonstrated that big things like atoms were nonlocally connected, even in matter so large that you could hold it in your hand.”

    Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011

  • This form of trapped light can then be manipulated by pi-pulses os as to nonlocally adjust other vortices.

    Physicists Tie Beam of Light into Knots | Universe Today 2010

  • And despite the vast difference in scale, it can influence our world, as spacetime is organized like a hologram, or fractal, with information repeating nonlocally and at different scales.

    Deepak Chopra: Can Science Explain the Soul? 2010

  • The philosophers' stone doesn't just redeem the individual alchemist, it nonlocally influences the field to such a degree that it was considered to be able to redeem the entire cosmos.

    Paul Levy - The Sacred Art of Alchemy William Harryman 2009

  • The other kind of evidence concerns the observation that quanta and the things composed of quanta living organisms included are intrinsically and, as it appears, “nonlocally” connected.

    Archive 2008-10-14 2008

  • Yet the wave function is nonlocally defined on each time slice (spatial surface) and that relationship is nonlocal.

    Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Quantum Mechanics, But Were Afraid to Ask Sean 2008

  • The other kind of evidence concerns the observation that quanta and the things composed of quanta living organisms included are intrinsically and, as it appears, “nonlocally” connected.

    Ervin Laszlo : EARTH, LIFE, AND MIND : THE PROMISE OF THE NEW HOLISM IN THE SCIENCES 2008

  • Rather than relatively straightforward sets of algorithms expressed in neurological lines of code divided into tidy subprograms, our minds are subtle machines with virtual processors distributed holographically and interacting nonlocally throughout the brain.

    Designs, Intelligent and Stupid Sean 2007

  • Minds are entangled with the universe, so in principle minds can nonlocally influence anything, including a collection of other minds or physical systems.

    ENTANGLED MINDS DEAN RADIN 2006

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